Stick around for some in-camera test footage later on, test stills are below and there's a hands-on video after the break.
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Conducted to determine the capabilities of the orbiting camera, a test search earlier this month demonstrated the difficulty of distinguishing a lander even if the location is known.
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Next week, they will order the spacecraft to unfold the telescope's 33-foot-long camera mast and test its array of 133 mirrors, then begin actual operations 23 days later.
In accordance with Casio's own standard with reference to the US MIL-STD-810F Method 516.5-Shock, the camera passed a test in which it was dropped from a height of 2.13 meters (7 feet) onto lauan plywood at 26 different angles.
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After announcing the results of a successful test of its 360 degree video camera two weeks ago and skillfully repositioning itself as a homeland defense play, IPIX is up more than 1, 000%.
By doing so the robot's camera scanner reading of DNA test strips eliminates human error.
Fortunately, my test truck had the optional rearview video camera.
It'll also find time for its studies, beaming VGA images snapped with an onboard camera back to Earth, to test a high-speed data transmitter.
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Before every test begins, the proctor asks the test taker to pan the room with their web camera, said Jarrod Morgan, a vice president at Proctor U. During that sweep, proctors see all sorts of things: answers on Post-it Notes taped to the computer screen, another person sitting in the room, a second laptop open to Google.
The company's test vehicle, a BMW 7 Series, uses a camera mounted behind the windscreen, similar to those used in cars with lane-departure warning systems.
While there's no video of this particular test flight, there is a video of the instruments being loaded onto the aircraft, shot with the very camera that's now installed vehicle's tail (and augmented with the requisite Benny Hill theme song).
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