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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
Abu Dhabi-based satellite company Orbitworks has shipped Altair-1, the...
Long March 12 launches despite recent 7A failure, Long March 2C launches satellite for UAE
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India-US space ties deepen as NASA invites ISRO to join moon base program
NASA has formally invited India to participate in its...
H3 launches navigation satellite
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Chinese rocket carrying satellite explodes seconds after launch
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NASA invites ISRO to join its ambitious Moon Base programme
India and the United States are set to strengthen...
India counters China’s map war: Names of 27 Arunachal Pradesh locations standardised on Survey of India maps
The official list covers 21 land locations, four mountain...

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Friday, August 19th, 2016

FARO Solutions Featured in Investigation Scenes of Japanese Movie “Himitsu – THE TOP SECRET”

Aichi  – FARO Japan, Inc. (Head office in Aichi, Chief Commercial Officer: Joseph Arezone) announced that its 3D laser scanner, FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D, as well as its handheld scanner, FARO Scanner Freestyle3D, were used as cutting-edge...

Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

Spotlight: Chinese-Egyptian Archaeological Cooperation Necessary for Both Civilizations

CAIRO - China and Egypt should carry out extensive archaeological cooperation to help each other discover their buried treasures, which is necessary for both the Chinese and Egyptian civilizations, experts said here Monday. Read More at Xinhua

Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

Pakistan’s First Indigenous Digital Mapping Solution Launched

TPL Trakker Ltd, a tracking solutions provider, launched on Monday country’s first indigenously developed digital mapping solution. Read More at The Tribune

Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

Australia Plans New Datum System in Response to GNSS Growth

Citing the position accuracy of new GNSS constellations, Australia’s Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) is moving to modernize the country’s current datum system. Read More at Inside GNSS

Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

Anna Univ Researchers to Predict Landslides in Uttarakhand Area

CHENNAI: In an attempt to give some relief to people of disaster-prone Uttarakhand, the Union government has roped-in the Institute of Remote Sensing (IRS) in Anna University to predict the occurrence of landslides in the Himalayan region...

Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

Pune-Based Company to Complete GIS Mapping of Supply Network

The standing committee of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Friday finalized a Pune-based firm for its ambitious projects of water audit, hydraulic modelling and the geo-informatics system (GIS) mapping of the water supply network.The KMC is...

Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

Isro@47: The Maverick Journey of Indian Space Agency

As the nation celebrates its 70th Independence Day today, August 15 is also historically remarkable for the national space agency — The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). It was on this day in 1969 that the agency...

Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

Kazakhstan, South Korea and Belarus Create Eurasian Spatial Data Infrastructure

A memorandum of understanding and cooperation to create Eurasian spatial data infrastructure was recently signed between Belarus, Kazakhstan and South Korea. Read More at Astana Times

Friday, August 12th, 2016

GIS Technology Proves Fundamental in Battle against Zika Virus

Redlands, California —Florida is home to more than 3.6 million women aged 15 to 44 years. With more than 300 Zika virus cases reported in Florida to date, the state has become a top focus in the...

Thursday, August 11th, 2016

Controversy Persists in Korea Over Restrictions on Google Maps

A yearslong controversy over restrictions on Google Maps persists in South Korea, about two months after the world's biggest search engine again requested the Korean government to allow it to export government-supplied map data outside of the...