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IMAX (ICBC, IMAX CARGO BAY CAMERA)

Created by three Canadian film makers: Graeme Ferguson, Robert Kerr, Roman Kroitor.

IMAX cameras have already been used aboard Space Shuttles Atlantis, Discovery, Challenger and Columbia. Footage from missions is featured in several IMAX films, one of which is Blue Planet.

The Dream is Alive, IMAX’s first space film, features the mission and the landing of the Space Shuttle Challenger with Canadian Payload Specialist Dr. Marc Garneau on board.

Footage from the Mission STS-42 with Canadian astronaut, Dr. Roberta Bondar, is featured in the film Destiny in Space .

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will be operating the ICBC cameras during Mission STS-74. The main objective of the ICBC is to film the docking and undocking manoeuvres of the Shuttle Atlantis’ rendezvous with Mir, the Russian Space Station. Footage taken will be featured in IMAX and OMNIMAX equipped theatres.

IMAX cameras are mounted on a Get Away Special (GAS) beam in the payload bay with two main structures; a camera container and a mount adapter bracket.

Once mounted for flight, the camera container position is fixed; no pan or tilt is possible.

The camera is controlled from the aft flight deck, exposing the film through a 30 millimetre fisheye lens. Lenses and film cannot be changed during the flight.

The ICBC is a joint project sponsored by NASA, the National Air and Space Museum, IMAX Corporation, and Lockheed Corporation.