Monday, January 13th, 2020
A humanoid robot will be ISRO’s first ‘astronaut’ in December 2020, preparatory to the agency’s planned 2021 launch of the Gaganyaan mission that will see ISRO put three Indians in space for the first time. Read More...
Monday, January 13th, 2020
South Korean environmental monitoring and oceanographic satellite Chollian-2B is expected to be launched on board an Arianespace Ariane-5 satellite launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Centre on 18 February 2020, according to the South Korean Ministry of...
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Massive wildfires have burned over 15 million acres of land across Australia in the current fire season. Two dozen people have been killed. Tens of thousands have been displaced. Hundreds of millions of animals from across Australia’s...
Monday, January 13th, 2020
ISLAMABAD: To digitise land record system of the federal capital, an agreement has been signed between its top civic authority and the Survey of Pakistan (SoP). Read More at The Express Tribune
Monday, January 13th, 2020
UK Ministers announced on 30 December 2019 backing for ground-breaking research analysing satellite images that will better predict the future impact of climate change in towns and cities and inform future government action. Read More at SpaceWatch...
Monday, January 13th, 2020
South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on 31 December 2019 that South Korea’s largest aerospace company, the Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI), has announced that it will build three remote sensing satellites with the Korean Aerospace Research...
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Beijing – AMAP, China’s leading mapping, navigation and location-based services provider has selected HERE Technologies as their main provider of global map content and traffic information outside of China within its app, AMAP in April 2020. A super app, AMAP allows...
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
Tsubame, an Earth Observation satellite developed by Japan’s space agency JAXA, has been registered by the Guinness World Records as having achieved the “lowest altitude by an Earth observation satellite in orbit,” for an altitude of 167.4...
Monday, January 6th, 2020
The Indian Space Research Organisation and Chinese mobile manufacturer Xiaomi are in advanced talks on the provision of chipsets that can support NaVIC, the Indian version of Global Positioning System (GPS), an official revealed. Read More at...
Monday, January 6th, 2020
A new £5 million research centre at the University of Leeds will use cutting edge technology to look at ways of combating the climate crisis. Read More at LEEDSLive