Former NASA engineer and now successful YouTuber Mark Rober will launch a satellite in cooperation with Google and T-Mobile. It will allow him to take selfies with his subscribers from space. This was reported by The Verge.
Rober has become famous on YouTube for videos in which he fights parcel thieves, creates the largest water gun, or an obstacle course for squirrels. Now he is going to launch a satellite into space.
The process of creating a selfie will be quite simple. You send a photo of yourself taken on Earth. The selfie will be displayed on the screen of a Google Pixel smartphone mounted on the satellite, and the second camera will take a picture of this screen with the Earth in the background.
Rober promises to take selfies for everyone when the satellite flies over your city. You’ll be notified when the shot is taken, so you can go outside and actually be in the frame twice: on the satellite screen and directly from the Earth.
SpaceX is scheduled to launch the satellite in January 2025 as part of the Transporter 12 mission. The satellite will start operating in a few months.
To get a “free” code for a satellite selfie, you need to subscribe to CrunchLabs, which offers children’s construction kits. Subscriptions cost from $25 to $80 per year, depending on the package you choose. The service will also be available to T-Mobile subscribers via the T-Life app and to Google Pixel owners.
You will be able to order a selfie on spaceselfie.com starting December 3, 2024. You will be asked to upload your selfie, after which you will receive an email that will allow you to track when your selfie is taken.
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