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Isro will not make any launch vehicle, all tech to be handed to private sector
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Orbitworks ships UAE-built Altair-1 to US ahead of October launch
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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
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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
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Monday, February 6th, 2017

Continental Mapping Announces Hiring of Pete Briere as General Manager – Civil Works

(Sun Prairie, WI) — Continental Mapping is pleased to bring Pete Briere into our senior management team as General Manager of our Civil Works Division.  Pete has 20 years of experience in the geospatial industry ranging across...

Monday, February 6th, 2017

DigitalGlobe Completes Testing and Calibration of WorldView-4 and Begins Serving the Satellite’s First Direct Access Customer

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced that the WorldView-4 satellite successfully completed in-orbit testing and calibration and began serving its first direct...

Monday, February 6th, 2017

Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google

WASHINGTON — Commercial remote sensing company Planet announced Feb. 3 it was acquiring rival Terra Bella from Google for an undisclosed sum, bringing together what the companies believe are complementary capabilities to image the Earth from space....

Monday, February 6th, 2017

Australia has Officially Moved 1.8 Metres

As of January 2017, Australia’s coordinates have officially moved 1.8 metres northeast, following the launch of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020). The first update to Australia’s coordinate system in two decades, GDA2020 is a step...

Friday, February 3rd, 2017

Putting Disease on the Map

Redlands, California—The new edition of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine from Esri traces the long history of how maps have been used to help unlock the mysteries behind the cause and spread of diseases such...

Friday, February 3rd, 2017

USGIF Accepting Nominations for 2017 Awards Program

The USGIF Awards Program annually recognizes the exceptional work of the global geospatial intelligence tradecraft’s brightest minds and most innovative organizations. The program shines a spotlight on outstanding geospatial intelligence achievements in five categories: academia, community support,...

Friday, February 3rd, 2017

Oncor Upgrades to Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure’s GIS and Network Modelling Solution

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Oncor Electric Delivery Company (Oncor) has selected Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure to deliver geospatial data across the company's operations. Hexagon's geographic information system (GIS) and network modelling solution will coordinate with other business systems to...

Friday, February 3rd, 2017

Rwanda Forges Forward in Drone Mapping Use

After Rwanda made waves in the news early last year for allegedly being the first country to approve drone delivery, people payed attention. The country, with its rolling hills and one of the fastest growing economies in Central Africa...

Thursday, February 2nd, 2017

“Satellite Data” War Is Heating up in Southeast Asia

By AsiaToday reporter Jina Koh - The “satellite data” war is heating up in Southeast Asia. It’s because they desperately need satellite data to prepare for natural disasters, internet infrastructure construction and more. Read More at Huffington...

Thursday, February 2nd, 2017

Leica Geosystems Wins Prestigious PRISM Award and Geospatial World Innovation Award

Heerbrugg, Switzerland; 2 February 2017 – Leica Geosystems, a global leader of measurement and reality capture technology, today announced it has won both the 2017 PRISM Award for Photonics Innovation and the 2017 Geospatial World Innovation Award....