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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
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OMEGA and MBRSC launch exhibition celebrating UAE’s space milestones and Moon landing anniversary
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SpaceX crash site on moon revealed by South Korean orbiter
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ispace Receives Grant for Japan’s Space Strategy Fund Project “High-Precision Landing Technology in the Lunar Poles Region”
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Embry‑Riddle Asia Launches Professional Space Operations Course in Singapore Amid Regional Space Boom
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ISRO to map landslides in J&K using satellite to generate alerts
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Korea to Build 3D ‘New National Map’ Under Spatial Data Strategy
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Esri Location Intelligence Empowers Innovation at FirstNet Hackathon

REDLANDS, Calif. — Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced that it will sponsor the FirstNet Public Safety Hackathon in San Francisco, March 23–24. FirstNet is hosting the hackathon to drive the development of public...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

GRSG Chairman is Coming Up Trumps for the Geological Society

The Chairman of the Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) Charlotte Bishop, will be giving the next Geological Society Public Lecture at Burlington House on London’s Piccadilly once in the afternoon and again in the evening of Wednesday...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

New Esri Textbook Teaches the Fundamentals of ArcGIS

Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced the publication of Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, Fifth Edition. The comprehensive textbook teaches the concepts of geographic information system (GIS) technology and the fundamentals of mapmaking...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Indian Railways to Use GIS Portal, Satellite Imagery and GPS to Monitor Trains, Manage its Assets

NEW DELHI: Indian Railways will soon use satellite imagery to monitor, maintain and manage its assets across the country. The national transporter has signed a MOU with ISRO signed for mutual cooperation.  Read More at Economics Times

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Gurugram Becomes First City of North India to Get GIS Mapping

Gurugram has become first city of North India to get done GIS Mapping, which would not only become the base for master services of water, sewerage, power and roads, but it would also be help in putting...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

SpaceX Rocket Launch Created Shock Wave 4 Times Larger Than California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch last year generated a record-setting shock wave in Earth's atmosphere four times larger than the state of California, a new study reports. Read More at Space.com

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Airports Authority of India Conducts International Workshop on Harmonised Satellite Navigation

Last week, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that it has now shared the significant benefits of advanced navigation system by offering GPS-aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Southeast...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

European Space Agency Teams with ICEYE Finnish Start-Up

The European Space Agency is to work with Finnish start-up ICEYE on ways to exploit its novel radar satellites. ICEYE-X1 was launched in January - the first of multiple spacecraft that will go up in the coming...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

ISRO to Launch Chandrayaan-2 in Oct 1st Week

India's second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, to be launched only in October as the experts have suggested some tests, the Isro said on Friday. Earlier it was slated between April and November with the real target...

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

Small US Built Drones Searching Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) are developing unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology to fly into the containment vessels of the damaged units at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and assess conditions....