Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Moscow and Beijing will team up to create an integrated navigation system based on Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and the Chinese BeiDou. The system will cover most of Eurasia. Read More at American Surveyor
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
PALO ALTO, Calif.—SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today it was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Google has announced that its popular mapping service Google Maps is now available in the Croatian language. Read More at Croatia Week
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
TEHRAN – Head of Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Morteza Barari says Iran has planned to develop remote sensing as well as communications satellites to serve the Iranian people in their daily lives. Read More at MNA
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Afghanistan launched the “Afghan GeoPortal” to help increase the Government of Afghanistan’s access to accurate and comprehensive geospatial data from a central information system in the country. Read...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
The world’s most popular mapping service has introduced wheelchair-accessible transit routes, trialing the service in London, New York, Tokyo, Mexico City, Boston, and Sydney. Read More at Spatial Source
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
A small spacecraft built for the Russian military lifted off Thursday on top of a modified Soyuz booster, beginning a mission to reportedly test a compact Earth-imaging platform that could be used on future spy satellites. Read...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
A first-of-its-kind project to map an Indian metropolis using drones began on November 21, 2017. With it, Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) Commissioner D. Karthikeyan set in motion a State government initiative that had waited for years...
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
TAIYUAN — China on Saturday launched three Gaofen-1 imaging satellites as part of the country’s high-definition earth observation project. Read More at Brinkwire
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
China's prototype space station, whose name translates as "Heavenly Palace 1," met a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere today (April 1), breaking apart and burning up in the skies over the southern Pacific Ocean at about 8:16...
