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Long March 12 launches despite recent 7A failure, Long March 2C launches satellite for UAE
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India-US space ties deepen as NASA invites ISRO to join moon base program
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Chinese rocket carrying satellite explodes seconds after launch
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NASA invites ISRO to join its ambitious Moon Base programme
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India counters China’s map war: Names of 27 Arunachal Pradesh locations standardised on Survey of India maps
The official list covers 21 land locations, four mountain...
OMEGA and MBRSC launch exhibition celebrating UAE’s space milestones and Moon landing anniversary
OMEGA has partnered with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space...
SpaceX crash site on moon revealed by South Korean orbiter
An out-of-control SpaceX rocket that crashed into the moon...
ispace Receives Grant for Japan’s Space Strategy Fund Project “High-Precision Landing Technology in the Lunar Poles Region”
TOKYO—August 7, 2026—ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global...
Embry‑Riddle Asia Launches Professional Space Operations Course in Singapore Amid Regional Space Boom
As Singapore works to develop its involvement in the...

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Monday, November 19th, 2018

​CSIRO Coughs up AU$35m for Australia’s Space and AI Efforts

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has made AU$35 million available for research into new and emerging technologies. Read More at ZDNet

Monday, November 19th, 2018

Public Can Access NICB’s Geospatial Intelligence Center Images of California Wildfires Damage

DES PLAINES, Ill.- Images showing the destruction left behind by the recent California wildfires are now available to the public on the National Insurance Crime Bureau's (NICB) website. The Geospatial Intelligence Center (GIC), created by the NICB and...

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Morocco to launch second satellite on Tuesday

CASABLANCA – A Vega rocket will launch in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday a MOHAMMED VI - B Earth observation satellite on behalf of Morocco from Kourou in French Guiana, announced Arianespace. Read More at Middle...

Friday, November 16th, 2018

OGC seeks public comment on Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) Core Standard. Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 (HDF5) is a data model, a programming interface, and a storage model for...

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Major Telco Company Partners with Vricon to Accelerate 5G Rollouts Across the USA

McLean, VA - Vricon is pleased to announce that a major U.S. telecommunications company recently acquired Vricon’s high-resolution 3D geodata to support large-scale 5G telecommunications network planning and design. Under the multimillion-dollar contract, Vricon will provide the firm with...

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Inaugural Spatial Summit by XYO Network a Blow-Out Success, Drawing More than 700 Global Attendees to San Diego

SAN DIEGO - XYO Network, the technology bringing blockchain to the real world, today announced its first annual Spatial Summit event was a major success. The oversubscribed event brought together more than 700 blockchain, business and technology...

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Aurora Flight Sciences Reveals Solar-Powered Autonomous Aircraft Odysseus

MANASSAS, Va.- Aurora continues its nearly 30-year legacy of advancing autonomous systems with Odysseus, the world's most capable solar-powered autonomous aircraft. Powered only by the sun, Odysseus is an ultra-long endurance, high-altitude platform built for groundbreaking persistence....

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Announcing the Programmable Tello EDU Drone, Now Available at Apple and DJI

SHENZHEN, China - Ryze Tech, creator of the Tello mini drone, is launching Tello EDU, a programmable unit that expands the educational opportunities with support for additional programming languages and drone swarms. Tello EDU is now available...

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Tunisia To Host Second China-Arab Forum On BeiDou GNSS Use

Tunisia will host the second forum on Chinese and Arab country cooperation on the use and adoption of the Chinese global navigation satellite system (GNSS), named BeiDou, in the first half of 2019. Read More at SpaceWatch

Friday, November 16th, 2018

Mauritius: Workshop to Empower Participants On the Use of Geospatial Techniques

A capacity-building workshop on Geographical Information System (GIS), specifically on geospatial technique to assess land use, land use change and forestry under the Republic of Mauritius's Biennial Update Report opened, yesterday, at the Gold Crest Hotel in...