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Palakkad Celebrates as NASA Astronaut Anil Menon Set for First Space Mission
Thiruvananthapuram, July 13, 2026: Kerala’s Palakkad district is set to...
G20 satellite is expected to be launched in 2027: ISRO Chairman
ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan has said that the G20...
Unidentified metal spheres found on Australian beach are ‘debris from a foreign rocket body’, space agency says
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Singapore and Japan sign agreement to strengthen space collaboration
SINGAPORE: The space agencies of Singapore and Japan signed...
Japan space probe skims asteroid in test for planetary defense
A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a...
Hong Kong-developed ‘Eye for Space’ now operating aboard Tiangong space station
Hong Kong’s first home-grown astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, assembled and...
ISRO conducts first SOLVE ground test important for Gaganyaan missions
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New 3D Detection Method for Detecting Atmospheric Rivers in Antarctica
Researchers in Japan demonstrate how vertically layered atmospheric rivers...
Uttar Pradesh Govt launches Special Land Measurement Campaign
The Uttar Pradesh government yesterday launched the statewide Digi...
Japan Eyes Sovereign D2D Satellite Network
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Monday, March 20th, 2017

INTERAERIAL SOLUTIONS Part of INTERGEO: Europe’s Leading Trade Fair for Commercial and Civil Drones

Berlin/Karlsruhe, 20 March 2017.  Virtually no other sector is growing and becoming more professional at a faster rate than UAS (unmanned aerial systems). The focus has long since moved beyond technical aspects such as drone hardware or...

Monday, March 20th, 2017

Transport Canberra and City Services Maps Tree Canopy From Aerial Laser Scan with FME and 1Spatial

Cambridge, UK, 20 March 2017 (www.1spatial.com) 1Spatial, global leaders in managing geospatial data, today announced that Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) recently engaged 1Spatial to analyse and extract aerial laser scanning data to accelerate the process...

Friday, March 17th, 2017

Israel Closes Palestinian Land Mapping Office in Jerusalem

Israel today closed a Palestinian office which maps and monitors the transfer of Palestinian land to Israelis, ransacking it and detaining its director, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Read More at MEM

Friday, March 17th, 2017

Gray Eagle Drones Are Not Being Deployed To South Korea As A Reactionary Measure

The news that the US Army is deploying MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft to South Korea came yesterday packaged in a strange manner. News outlets and the US government seemed to be making the point that the...

Friday, March 17th, 2017

Expert Drones Announces Drone Franchise and Partnership Opportunities; New Full-Service Drone Store to Open in Rochester, NY

WASHINGTON - Expert Drones, a subsidiary of Dronepire Inc., publicly unveiled today it's highly anticipated drone franchising and partnership program, providing savvy entrepreneurs the resources and opportunity to become part of the growing multi-billion-dollar drone industry.  The...

Friday, March 17th, 2017

OGC Approves New Standard for Geological Science Data

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved GeoSciML as an OGC Standard. The OGC GeoSciML Standard defines a model and encoding for geological features commonly described and portrayed in geological maps, cross sections, geological...

Friday, March 17th, 2017

PhotoFlight Aerial Media, America’s Largest Drone Operator, Announces Acquisition of Notadrone.com and 500 Feet Drones

MANCHESTER, Conn. - PhotoFlight Aerial Media www.photoflightam.com, the leading national commercial drone service provider offering state of the art FAA authorized UAV aerial media services, announced today it has acquired 500 Feet Drones, LLC and Stribog Media LLC,...

Friday, March 17th, 2017

Kratos Receives $1.6 Million Single Award Contract for New, In Development, High Performance Unmanned Aerial Drone System

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 initial $1.6 million single award contract related to a new,...

Friday, March 17th, 2017

TomTom HD Map for Autonomous Driving Now Covers Mainland US Interstate Road Network

DEARBORN, Mich.- Connected Car Detroit, – TomTom (TOM2) today announces it has completed the expansion of its High Definition (HD) Map product to the entire mainland US interstate network, now covering over 185,000 kilometres** of interstates and...

Friday, March 17th, 2017

UrtheCast Receives C$17.6 million of Funding from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to Support Development of OptiSARTM Satellite Constellation

VANCOUVER - UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR) ("UrtheCast" or the "Company") today announces that it will receive approximately $17.6 million in funding from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's Industrial Technologies Office as part of its Strategic Aerospace &...