cosine 3D camera launched into space
Published: 3 Feb 2010
The Soyuz rocket, launched on February 3rd, 2010 from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakstan contained an outstanding instrument of Dutch design.
See also the ESA news on the ERB-2 camera developed under the leadership of cosine.
Amongst the 2,5 ton cargo carried by the Soyuz rocket was a technical tour de force: the ERB-2, a small, relatively light weighted 3D camera that can directly play back the recorded movies. cosine led the development of this camera for the Erasmus Centre of the Human Spaceflight Directorate of the European Space Agency. The optics and electronis were developed with German and an Italian partners. Rob van Opdorp Designs was responsible for the fine design of the camera housing. After the camera had come through the stiff tests that are required for usage in space, nothing stood in the way of its launch into space. Having reached the International Space Station, it is only a matter of time until the whole world can watch live 3D movies in HD quality made in space, 400 kilometers from the Earth.