Friday, April 1st, 2011
The Soyuz site at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana is now ready for its first launch. ESA yesterday handed over the complex to Arianespace, marking a major step towards this year’s inaugural flight.C onstruction of the Soyuz...
Friday, April 1st, 2011
An innovative new online mapping portal that will mobilise communities to help protect koalas and their habitats was launched today by Esri Australia and the Australia Koala Foundation (AKF). The AKF’s KoalaMap lets visitors be part of...
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Recently there has been speculation that India's earth observation satellites have not been performing to expectation. The Comptroller and Auditor General for the country opened the door and stepped into the satellite industry and determined that several satellites...
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
It was taken by a Russian spacecraft, a new weather satellite called Elektro-L. It’s now orbiting Earth on a geostationary orbit 36,000km above the equator, after being launched on January 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, on board...
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Starting from March 2011 the testing of the service of operational space information support of ice operations in the White Sea has been ongoing in behalf of the Arkhangelsk Branch of the FSUE “Rosmorport”. As part of the...
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
The Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has announced nine potential geothermal areas as geothermal working areas. This is done to increase the geothermal contribution to the national energy mix. This statement is announced by the Director...
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
State Nuclear Electric Power Planning Design and Research Institute (SNPDRI) based in Beijing, China, has chosen Intergraph SmartPlant Foundation and other SmartPlant Enterprise solutions to manage engineering data for its AP1000 project. As a subsidiary of State Nuclear...
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
The newly launched MP180 pocket projector from 3M offers all the features of the earlier models but tops them with a touchscreen and wireless capabilities in the form of WiFi and Bluetooth. According to the company, operating the...
