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South Korea’s Space Agency Seeks 47% Budget Hike for 2027; Regular Nuri Launches, Lunar Lander Development to Begin
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Space42 launches Future Spacers Programme to develop UAE space talent
Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company, has launched the...
US, China arm for space warfare: hunter satellites and orbital weapons
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ISRO Puts India’s First Geo Imaging Satellite In Orbit, PM Modi Hails EOS-05 Launch Aboard GSLV-F17
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully launched EOS-05,...
China releases first nationwide geometric benchmark imagery, setting a unified ‘spatial scale’ for satellite remote sensing
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India to have its own space station by 2035, says ISRO chairman
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Isro will not make any launch vehicle, all tech to be handed to private sector
IN-SPACe chairman Pawan Goenka said Isro is moving launch...
North Korea fires ballistic missiles as US-South Korea drills near end
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Orbitworks ships UAE-built Altair-1 to US ahead of October launch
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Monday, April 30th, 2018

Delair Announces Global Availability of Most Advanced & Cost Effective Large Area Mapping UAV for Geospatial Professionals

SOUTH PASADENA, CA, TOULOUSE, France. – Delair, a leading supplier of commercial drone solutions, today announced the global availability of its breakthrough Delair UX11 fixed-wing UAV, an innovative hardware-software platform that provides highly accurate images for survey-grade...

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Bluesky LiDAR Supports Major Irish Water Supply Project

Detailed 3D data captured using aircraft mounted laser is helping RPS plan, design and engineer a major overhaul of water supplies in County Wicklow, Ireland. The Bluesky LiDAR data was used to assess various route options as...

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Engility names Aviation Mobile Apps and Kelly Technology as 2018 winners of the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program Grand Challenge

CHANTILLY, Va.- Engility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EGL) represented by Amanda Brownfield, senior vice president of the Intelligence Solutions Group, was joined by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo to announce the 2018 winners of the Innovative GEOINT...

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Ursa to Extract Oil Demand Information from ICEYE’s Satellite Data

Helsinki, FINLAND  – ICEYE, an Earth observation company providing synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, and Ursa Space Systems (Ursa), a Space data analytics company, announced at GEOINT Symposium an agreement where ICEYE will provide satellite data to Ursa....

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Penn State Research Team Recognized with Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award

Tuesday afternoon at USGIF’s GEOINT 2018 Symposium, the 2018 Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence was awarded to three individuals: Justin Hoesman, special agent in training for the National Nuclear Security Administration; Daniel W. Steiner,...

Monday, April 30th, 2018

US Geological Survey Selects Hexagon to Upgrade Machine Learning Tool

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.- The US Geological Survey (USGS) has selected Hexagon US Federal to upgrade the machine learning-based Land Cover Mapping (LCM) tool. Through more than a decade of success using the LCM tool powered by Hexagon’s ERDAS...

Friday, April 27th, 2018

First Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) Certified by UL

Northbrook, IL – Unmanned or automated electric vehicles and systems are now available with UL electrical system safety certification, as UL issues the first UL 3030 certification for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the Intel® Falcon 8+ drone, a professional, unmanned aerial...

Friday, April 27th, 2018

Internationally Acclaimed Universities Praise Latvia-Developed Drone Software UgC

Riga, Latvia - April 27, 2018 - Such internationally acclaimed research centres and universities as Stanford University, Rochester Institute of Technology and Aurora Research Institute have studied, tested, and used in their work the drone control software...

Friday, April 27th, 2018

NavVis Launches Autodesk Revit Add-in

MUNICH, Germany – NavVis, a global leader in mobile indoor mapping, visualization, and navigation, announces a new add-in for Autodesk Revit. The add-in lets Revit users connect their BIM models to 360 degree immersive imagery and point...

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

Asia Air Survey Co. Ltd. Acquires Optech Galaxy for Mountain and Forestry Surveying

April 26, 2018 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that Asia Air Survey Co. (AAS), Tokyo, Japan, has taken delivery of an ALTM Galaxy T1000 for use in their forest resource management initiatives, road and railway...