ANAHD: space avatar debuts on ISS: by ANAHD and JAXA
-The earth was blue and shining! –
“Space Avatar”:
At Toranomon Hills in Tokyo
“AVATAR X space avatar, let’s feel the universe closer” event is being held.
Remote control of ISS robots:
From Toranomon Hills
General visitors can remotely control the robots of the International Space Station ISS.
The period of the demonstration experiment event is (11 / 21-22)
4K camera robot:
“Space avatar” is a 4K camera robot that can be operated remotely.
The ISS “Kibo” is equipped with a remote-controlled 4K camera robot called “space avatar”.
It is an experience of looking at the universe and the earth from the inside of the “Kibo” ship in real time by direct operation from the ground.
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World’s first publically accessible “space avatar” set to launch for the International Space Station
Tokyo, Japan – ANA HOLDINGS INC. (hereafter “ANAHD”),
avatarin Inc. of the ANA Group (hereafter “avatarin”), and
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (hereafter “JAXA”)
have announced a new project on the International Space Station(ISS) to release the world’s first space avatar1 experience.
This project
is a direct output of the “AVATAR X” program2 which was launched by ANAHD and JAXA in September of 2018 under the JAXA Space Innovation through Partnership and Co-creation initiative (“J-SPARC3”).
avatarin will deploy the space avatar inside the Japanese experiment module “Kibo” on the ISS which is orbiting the globe at an altitude of 400km and speed of 8km per second.
In a world’s first, the general public
will be able to remotely operate this onboard system and view its real-time video stream from a public, non-JAXA facility in Tokyo.
Press Release | ANA Group Corp.’s Information