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Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown
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Indian astronaut to travel soon to ISS as part of ISRO-NASA Mission
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China issues regulatory framework to support direct-to-device satellite services
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Astranis clinches $115 million Taiwan deal despite satellite setback
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UAE and Egypt Strengthen Space Collaboration with New MoU
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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...

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Japan Tsunami Broke Huge Icebergs Off Antarctica

The calving of icebergs (where a huge chunk of ice breaks off from a glacier or ice shelf) from the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica was linked to the tsunami, which originated with the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the...

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Land Information Mashup for Canterbury

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) today announced its sponsorship of the Support for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Data Mashup category in The Great New Zealand Remix and Mashup Competition launched in Auckland this week. The LINZ sponsored category calls for the...

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Korea Protests US Agency’s Support for ‘Sea of Japan’

Korea has lodged an informal protest against a U.S. government-funded agency’s suggestion to use Japan’s name for the body of water between the two Asian nations in the world’s most-cited guideline for maps, diplomatic sources said Monday. The...

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Azerbaijan – Development Concept in Real Estate management

Baku will host the international scientific-practical conference "Role of national spatial data infrastructure and a unified cadastre of real estate in modern property management system" on October 6-7, 2011 under the Azerbaijani State Property Committee. The conference is...