Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
A defunct Chinese space station plummeted through Earth's atmosphere on April 1, 2018, and officials said debris from the 18,000-pound spacecraft landed in the Pacific Ocean. In a statement, U.S. military officials said the Tiangong-1 space station...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Boeing subsidiary Insitu is being awarded a $47,037,076 delivery order for the procurement of eight ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in support of the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Read More at Defense World
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Indian space scientists and engineers are making all-out efforts to establish a link with the communication satellite GSAT-6A launched on March 29, said an official on Tuesday. Read More at Financial Express
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Moscow and Beijing will team up to create an integrated navigation system based on Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and the Chinese BeiDou. The system will cover most of Eurasia. Read More at American Surveyor
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
PALO ALTO, Calif.—SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today it was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Google has announced that its popular mapping service Google Maps is now available in the Croatian language. Read More at Croatia Week
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
TEHRAN – Head of Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Morteza Barari says Iran has planned to develop remote sensing as well as communications satellites to serve the Iranian people in their daily lives. Read More at MNA
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Afghanistan launched the “Afghan GeoPortal” to help increase the Government of Afghanistan’s access to accurate and comprehensive geospatial data from a central information system in the country. Read...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
The world’s most popular mapping service has introduced wheelchair-accessible transit routes, trialing the service in London, New York, Tokyo, Mexico City, Boston, and Sydney. Read More at Spatial Source
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
A small spacecraft built for the Russian military lifted off Thursday on top of a modified Soyuz booster, beginning a mission to reportedly test a compact Earth-imaging platform that could be used on future spy satellites. Read...
