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Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Maxar Technologies’ SSL Selected by NASA JPL as Provider of Critical Capabilities for Europa Flyby Mission

PALO ALTO, CA - 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...

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

MapD Announces MapD Cloud: First SaaS Analytics Platform To Harness Extreme GPU-processing Power

SAN JOSE, Calif. - MapD Technologies, the extreme analytics™ platform provider, today announced the launch of MapD Cloud, the first ever software-as-a service (SaaS) offering of GPU-accelerated analytics. Now, analysts and data scientists everywhere have one-click access to the...

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Esri Announces 2018 Storytelling with Maps Contest

REDLANDS, Calif.- Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced the opening of its Storytelling with Maps Contest. Participants are invited to submit their top Esri Story Maps projects for a chance to win prizes and...

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018

Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 Reenters Atmosphere over Pacific

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’s Insitu to Provide Afghanistan with 8 ScanEagle UAS

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

ISRO Trying to Revive Link with Communication Satellite GSAT-6A

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

Russia & China to Merge Satellite Tracking Systems Into One Global Navigation Giant

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

Maxar Technologies’ SSL Selected by NASA JPL as Provider of Critical Capabilities for Europa Flyby Mission

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 Maps Now Available in the Croatian Language

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

Iran Develops Space Technology to Serve People

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