The original timelapse was made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha.” The camera was set up to take two pictures per second. These images were then edited into a video played at 25 frames per second, making the timelapse approximately 12 times faster than real time.

The original footage has been shortened for use on the EPFL iGEM 2026 Orbit-AL wiki.