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Palakkad Celebrates as NASA Astronaut Anil Menon Set for First Space Mission
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G20 satellite is expected to be launched in 2027: ISRO Chairman
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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
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Japan space probe skims asteroid in test for planetary defense
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Hong Kong-developed ‘Eye for Space’ now operating aboard Tiangong space station
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ISRO conducts first SOLVE ground test important for Gaganyaan missions
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New 3D Detection Method for Detecting Atmospheric Rivers in Antarctica
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Uttar Pradesh Govt launches Special Land Measurement Campaign
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Japan Eyes Sovereign D2D Satellite Network
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Russia Plans Three Launches in August

Russia has planned to launch three rockets (LV) from its Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in August including GLONASS, Russian media report. According to ARMS-TASS, Russian Federal Space Agency will launch the rocket Proton-M from the center...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Terrestrial LiDAR

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a pixel worth to a substation? Electrical substations are everywhere — generation substations, transmission substations, distribution substations, privately owned substations and the list goes on. Not as...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Dharna Planned Against Draft Land Acquisition Bill

The first major opposition to the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 will be in the form of a three-day dharna here beginning on Wednesday by the project-affected people. Various peoples' movements under the...

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Italy Albignasego City Government Selected SuperPad 3 for Field Survey

SuperGeo Technologies has successfully promoted SuperPad 3 to the Technical Division at Albignasego City in Italy. Located around 35 kilometers west from Venice, Albignasego is a municipality in the Province of Padua, Italy. Ufficio Tecnico, Comune di Albignasego, namely the Technical Division...

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Javad Petitions for End to P-Code

Encrypting GPS P-codes is a step backward in providing the best of this excellent work of science and art. As the leader in GPS technology, we consider P-codes encryption as being neither good science nor good politics. Our...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

GIS Introduced for School Mapping in India

For the first time in India, Manipur has introduced Geographic Information System (GIS) for mapping schools located in remote areas of the State. With the introduction of GIS, effective monitoring can now be done whether or not funds...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Australia – Ultrafine Location Fixes

The GPS technology that allows cell phones and other devices to pinpoint their location to within a few meters has made possible new services ranging from location-aware social networks to self-driving cars. A new location technology accurate...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Maps – History of the South China Sea

The South China Sea dispute centers on the sovereignty over the Nansha Islands, a network of islands that stretches 1,000 km from north to south in the southeastern corner of the sea. China was the first country...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Remote Sensing to Assess Indian Trees

According to forest and environment minister, Ajay Singh Yadav, the forest department has made an agreement with the Haryana State Remote Sensing Application Centrein Hisar, and the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) in Hydrabad, who will be...

Monday, August 1st, 2011

UAE’s Reach Widens on Land and From Space

With each pass over Japan’s ravaged landscape in the hours and days after March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, DubaiSat-1 collected images of large swaths of toppled towns, scanned the dramatically altered coastline and zeroed in on the...