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Thursday, August 11th, 2011

China to Launch Satellite for Pakistan

China announced on Wednesday it will launch a communications satellite for Pakistan at an "appropriate time" in the coming days. It will be carried by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. Both the satellite and rocket are currently...

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Editorial: Improve Radiation Mapping

The shipments of beef cows suspected of having been fed with radioactive rice straw to all the prefectures except Okinawa have underlined the radiation hazards caused by the disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1...

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Launch Date Set for NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X Satellites

SSTL has today announced that it will launch the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites on behalf of the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) by a Dnepr launch vehicle from Yasny, Russia 17th August...

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

AAM at AIMS Conference

AAM is a Gold Sponsor at the 2011 AIMS Conference on Wednesday 17 August to Friday 19 August at Sebel and Citigate Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Located at booth #9, AAM will be showcasing our latest offerings including 

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Velodyne Lidar Expands Global Reseller Network

Velodyne Lidar, Inc., announced that it has signed an agreement with Argo Corporation to serve as Velodyne’s exclusive reseller of HDL-64E and HDL-32E high definition 3-D LiDAR sensors in Japan.  Velodyne’s LiDAR sensors are primarily designed for...

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Hemisphere GPS Reports 29% Growth for Second Quarter

For the second quarter ended June 30, 2011, Hemisphere GPS achieved revenue growth of 29%, reporting $20.1 million in revenues, compared to$15.6 million in the second quarter of 2010 with strong growth in each of the Company's segments and general economic...

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

New Stereo Mapping Satellite to Launch By Year’s End

Song Chaozhi, the deputy director-general of the National Administration of Surveying,Mapping and Geological Information, announced that China's first civilian stereomapping satellite ZY-3 will be launched at the end of the year at a news conferenceheld by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China on Aug. 8.  In the new satellite, the variation of terrain, landform, the earth's surface and thesurface features, and the western 1:50000 primary scale topographic maps should berevamped continuously. Read More

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

GLONASS Gets Nokia Backing, Aims to Rival COMPASS

Russia has secured Nokia's backing of its GLONASS satellite navigation system, a major step forward for the country's technology toward securing the number two global position after GPS. GLONASS, as well as European space program Galileo and China's...

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Geo-informatics Centre to Be Operational by Year End

An ambitious Aryabhatta Geo-Informatics and Space Application Centre (AGISAC), that would enable layering of developmental data with GIS mapping for formulating micro planning, would start functioning by end of the year, cabinet minister Ravinder Ravi disclosed here...

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Pakistan Moves to Expand Satellite Operations

Ambassador Khan said “As we accomplished this goal of launching PakSat-1R, we will swiftly move on to expand our collaboration with China in related fields of space science and technology”. The launching of the satellite, he said...