Friday, January 5th, 2018
India: The Indian government is planning to start its own commercial mapping and navigation platform to plug the loopholes existing in services being offered by companies such as Google Maps and MapmyIndia, as per a senior government official. Read...
Friday, January 5th, 2018
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's MyHSR Corporation said Tuesday it is inviting pitches for the role of so-called geospatial data consultant for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail project. Read More at Asian Nikkei Review
Friday, January 5th, 2018
England: Planning to tackle flooding, and track illegal waste dumps in England, LiDAR mapping will be conducted in all of England, announced Environment Agency. Aircraft equipped with laser scanners will map all 130,000 square kilometers (50,000 square...
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has launched a satellite designed to reach ‘super low orbit’, using a radical ion engine said to be 10 times more efficient than gas jets. Read More at Daily mail
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
JERUSALEM (Xinhua) -- The Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and the Israel Space Agency said on Wednesday that Israel will launch a group of three nanosatellites into space in 2018. Read More at Xinhua
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
China: In 2018, China is expected to attempt more than 40 launches including the Long March 5 and lunar far side missions. The main space program contractor aims to launch 35 times, whereas the additional missions are...
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018
The first United Nations (UN) meeting on surveying and mapping is to be held in November next year in Deqing of east China's Zhejiang Province, authorities said Monday. Read More at China.ORG
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018
North Korea has reportedly developed a more advanced reconnaissance satellite and may be able to move it on a mobile launcher. Read More at Yahoo Finance
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018
China's newly-developed Wing Loong II UAS, a high-end reconnaissance-strike unmanned aerial system (UAS), has created a record "five hits in succession," its developer announced Sunday. Read More at ECNS
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018
A group of three nanosatellites that will fly on a controlled formation flying for the first time will be launched at the end of 2018. The project intends to prove that a group of satellites could sustain...
