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South Korea’s Space Agency Seeks 47% Budget Hike for 2027; Regular Nuri Launches, Lunar Lander Development to Begin
The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) has proposed a 2027...
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
Amid the rapidly-evolving field of military space operations, Beijing...
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
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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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Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Odisha Wins Geospatial World Excellence Award

Bhubaneswar, Jan 31 (PTI) Odisha has bagged Geospatial World Excellence Award-2018 for successful IT application on tracking of mineral production, dispatch and value accrued on real time basis through its i3MS website based software. Read More at...

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

India Establishing Satellite Tracking Station in Vietnam

Following a visit to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi by his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 24, 2018, India and Vietnam have agreed to go ahead with the establishment of an Indian Space Research Organisation...

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

India’s Total Forest Cover Increases by 1%: State of Forest Report 2017

India’s total forest cover increased by 0.94 per cent in the last two years, shows the State of Forest Report 2017, released today by the Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan and Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State, Ministry...

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

China Adds Two More Satellites to Home-Grown Navigation Network

Two more Chinese Beidou navigation satellites successfully lifted off aboard a Long March 3B rocket Monday on China’s seventh space launch in five weeks. Read More at Space Flight Now

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

e-GEOS to Supply Australian Maritime Safety Authority with Satellite Data for Oil Spills

On 7 February e-GEOS, a joint venture of Telespazio (a partnership between Thales and Leonard) and the Italian Space Agency, announced that it has won a contract to supply geo-information services to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority...

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

UAE to Launch First Astronaut Program, Thousands Apply

More than 3,000 UAE nationals applied to be the first Emirati astronaut in the UAE Astronaut Programme, the program’s manager said in the World Government Summit in Dubai on Sunday. Read More at Al Arabiya

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Russia’s Remote Sensing Satellites Send First Earth Images

MOSCOW: Russia’s remote sensing satellites Kanopus No. 3 and No. 4 launched and orbited on February 1 have sent their first images of the Earth’s surface, the press office of Roscosmos State Space Corporation reported on Monday....

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Noida Authority to Approve Building Maps Online

The Noida authority chief executive officer Alok Tandon on Monday said he has started the required process to approve building maps online. Read More at Hindustan Times

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

New FARO Design ScanArm 2.0 Improves Product Design Workflow

Lake Mary, FL - FARO® (NASDAQ:FARO), the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement and imaging solutions for factory metrology, product design, construction BIM/CIM, public safety forensics and 3D machine vision applications, introduces the next generation FARO®...

Monday, February 12th, 2018

ESA and Airbus Sign Partnership Agreement for New ISS Commercial Payload Platform Bartolomeo

Noordwijk/Netherlands - The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus have signed a commercial partnership (PPP) agreement for construction, launch and operations of the commercial "Bartolomeo" platform. Airbus' new external payload hosting facility will be attached to the...