Friday, January 5th, 2018
India: The Indian government is planning to start its own commercial mapping and navigation platform to plug the loopholes existing in services being offered by companies such as Google Maps and MapmyIndia, as per a senior government official. Read...
Friday, January 5th, 2018
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's MyHSR Corporation said Tuesday it is inviting pitches for the role of so-called geospatial data consultant for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail project. Read More at Asian Nikkei Review
Friday, January 5th, 2018
England: Planning to tackle flooding, and track illegal waste dumps in England, LiDAR mapping will be conducted in all of England, announced Environment Agency. Aircraft equipped with laser scanners will map all 130,000 square kilometers (50,000 square...
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has launched a satellite designed to reach ‘super low orbit’, using a radical ion engine said to be 10 times more efficient than gas jets. Read More at Daily mail
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
JERUSALEM (Xinhua) -- The Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and the Israel Space Agency said on Wednesday that Israel will launch a group of three nanosatellites into space in 2018. Read More at Xinhua
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
China: In 2018, China is expected to attempt more than 40 launches including the Long March 5 and lunar far side missions. The main space program contractor aims to launch 35 times, whereas the additional missions are...
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
Manassas, VA – The U.S. Air Force has awarded a new $48 million contract to Aurora Flight Sciences for the continued development of the Orion Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). Orion is a twin-engine high performance UAS that...
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
Toulouse – SES-14, the first ever all-electric satellite in the 4-tonne class today left the Airbus Defence and Space clean rooms in Toulouse. The spacecraft will be delivered to French Guiana for its launch from Kourou CSG...
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
TROY, Mich.- LG Electronics (LG) is partnering with HERE Technologies (HERE), a global provider of digital mapping and location services, to offer a next-generation telematics solution for autonomous vehicles. The solution combines LG's advanced telematics technology with...
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
Simple GIS Software, LLC has announced that it has released version 10 of its Simple GIS Client Application, a lightweight but powerful desktop GIS software for Windows PCs, laptops, and tablets. Simple GIS Client is a powerful,...
