The Vancouver Sun reports in its Tuesday edition two space cameras installed on the International Space Station last week have been removed for safety reasons. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Sun quotes UrtheCast as saying the cameras are now being stored inside the ISS until it can be determined why they were not receiving any power. Russian astronauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky installed the two high-resolution cameras Dec. 27, but shortly after they were put in place, Moscow reported it could not receive any data from either camera. Without any data, the control centre could not confirm the cameras were receiving power and would be able to survive "temperature fluctuations" in space, Urthe-Cast said in a statement. The cameras were uninstalled and brought back inside the ISS to be reinstalled at a later date, once the data transmission problem has been solved, it said Monday. The cameras -- one shoots photos, the other streams video -- were expected to begin transmitting high-definition images of the Earth on the Internet early next year. The cameras are expected to be able to show flash mobs, outdoor events, stadiums, boats and planes. The astronauts will try to reinstall the cameras later.