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Tokyo is stepping up efforts to harness dual-use technologies...
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
China's Ministry of Natural Resources has released its first...
India to have its own space station by 2035, says ISRO chairman
Speaking at the 14th convocation ceremony of IIT-BHU, ISRO...
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
South Korea has condemned North Korea’s launch ⁠of more...
Orbitworks ships UAE-built Altair-1 to US ahead of October launch
Abu Dhabi-based satellite company Orbitworks has shipped Altair-1, the...

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Thursday, June 8th, 2017

InterDrone 2017 Media and Association Partner Support Swells to Record 300+ Organizations

MELVILLE, N.Y.- BZ Media LLC announced today that the number of media and association partners supporting InterDrone had pushed past 300, exceeding last year’s record total of 254. InterDrone is the world’s largest event dedicated to commercial...

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

Esri and Leidos Modernize Intelligence Data Production

Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced that it has received over 30 compliance certificates from the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), for its ArcGIS 10.5 platform. These certificates of compliance cover a wide...

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

Kratos Receives High Performance Unmanned Aerial Drone System Order

SAN DIEGO, - Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Unmanned Systems Division (USD) recently received an order from a U.S. Government customer for six High Performance...

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

NXP Releases the Industry’s Highest Power Density for RF LDMOS in Avionics

HONOLULU - IMS 2017 - NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), the leader in RF power, today announced the industry's most compact RF laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) solution for the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) and unmanned aerial...

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

Engility names Optensity and Rosoka Software as this Year’s Winners of the 2017 Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program Grand Challenge

CHANTILLY, Va.- Executives from Engility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:EGL) - named Optensity and Rosoka Software the winners of the 2017 Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program Grand Challenge, an annual contest that challenges application developers to create a technology...

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

Harris Corporation Awarded $500 Million IDIQ Contract to Improve Data Search Capability for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

MELBOURNE, Fla.— Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been awarded a five-year, $500 million ceiling, single-award IDIQ contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to develop software that will enable NGA analysts and customers to search and retrieve data...

Thursday, June 8th, 2017

GEO Jobe Appoints Blake Bilbo to Role as Head of Customer Support

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - GEO Jobe, a leading GIS software and geospatial solutions provider and developers of Admin Tools, Mapfolio, and GEOPowered Cloud for ArcGIS, is pleased to announce Blake Bilbo has taken on the newly created position...

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017

Pix4D Expands R&D in Berlin

Drone-mapping software developer Pix4D announces the opening of a research and development office in Berlin, Germany. Pix4D products rely on advanced principles of photogrammetry, computer vision, and machine learning.  “By opening this office, we’re showing in a...

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017

SimActive Optimizes Vineyard Performance with Drones

Montreal, Canada, June 6th, 2017 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that Noveltis, a French company, has been using its Correlator3D™ software for precision viticulture.  Based on multispectral drone imagery,...

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017

DigitalGlobe Announces Multi-Source Area Monitoring and Analytic Capabilities for SecureWatch

WESTMINSTER, Colo.- DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced it will launch a premium monitoring service, SecureWatch Sites, which provides current satellite images of high-interest, global...