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PLD Space increases investment in its Launch Complex at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) to €35M, strengthening Europe’s sovereign space infrastructure
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ISRO to launch first unmanned Gaganyaan mission by year’s end
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ORF- RSIS Special Report Launch | India and Southeast Asia: Mapping Strategic Convergence in an Era of Great-Power Competition
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Chinese startup Mega Engine advances reusable staged-combustion rocket engine
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South Korean, Singaporean Entities Partner To Support Space Startup Expansion
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Japan space startups to train engineers from India, Philippines, Indonesia
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Zenrin Aligns with Indian Mapping Firm CE Info Systems

Zenrin Co will form a business alliance with Indian mapping firm CE Info Systems PVT Ltd through acquisition of more than 15% of its shares, as part of efforts to expand in the growing Indian market. The Kitakyushu-based...

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Google ‘Applying for China Mapping Licence’

 Google and its joint venture partner in China have applied for a licence to operate an online mapping service in the world's biggest web market, a news report said on Tuesday. The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping...

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

SuperGIS Desktop Selected by Universidade Federal do Ceará in Brazil

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that its reseller in Brazil, ENGESAT, has successfully promoted SuperGIS Desktop Lab Kit and GIS Learning CD to Universidade Federal do Ceará.

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

SpaceX Secures Launch Contract in Major Asian Market

Thai satellite company THAICOM Plc. has chosen Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to launch the new Thaicom 6 telecommunications satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) from its Cape Canaveral launch site in the second quarter of 2013. The contract brings another...

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Nepal Nagqu Lake Hydrological Scientific Investigation Starts

By the major national scientific research programs of global change, "the Tibetan Plateau climate system change and its impact on East Asia and mechanism of the" second issue "the role of the Tibetan Plateau during more than...

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Hong Kong Satellite Positioning Reference Station Network

Survey and Mapping Office (SMO) of Lands Department has applied new technology to improve the quality of services in recent years. It makes use of the Global Positioning System, GPS technology of United States to develop a...

Monday, June 13th, 2011

CSIRO Dam Break Modelling to Help Flood Planning

The research has been helping China’s disaster management authorities better understand the full impact of the catastrophic flooding that would occur if one of China’s, and the world’s, biggest dams collapsed. The work could also be applied in...

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Tasmanian Spatial Council Report

Invitation to stakeholders and user groups. Do you or your organisation have an issue, a proposal or a success story that you would like to discuss with TASSIC? In 2011, TASSIC will be scheduling meetings with different stakeholder and/or...

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

Russian, Turkmen Scientists Create Satellite Monitoring Centre

The Russian Academy of Sciences has offered support and assistance to Turkmenistan in creating a national satellite monitoring centre. The offer was made in the Russian Academy of Sciences’ section of the international exhibition “Science, Hardware and Innovative...

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

Cambodia – Implementation Agreement on Land Rights Program

On the morning of 25 May, 2011 at MLMUPC’s Cabinet (Mondial) there was a Signing Ceremony of Implementation Agreement on Land Rights Program Phase 1 March 2011 – February 2013) between the Ministry of Land Management, Urban...