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Australia’s Gilmour Space Technologies ready to launch maiden Eris Test flight the nation’s first orbital launch in over 50 years
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Korea’s space agency seeks revision of plan to modify next-gen rockets into reusable system
South Korea's aerospace agency said on Thursday that it...
UAE Space Agency Signs Agreement With Technology Innovation Institute to Execute the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt’s Lander Project
In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin...
Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown
A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with...
Indian astronaut to travel soon to ISS as part of ISRO-NASA Mission
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said by 2040, an Indian’s...
China issues regulatory framework to support direct-to-device satellite services
HELSINKI — China has released comprehensive regulations for direct-to-device...
Astranis clinches $115 million Taiwan deal despite satellite setback
TAMPA, Fla. — Astranis has signed a $115 million...
UAE and Egypt Strengthen Space Collaboration with New MoU
In a milestone development for Arab space collaboration, the...
Seoul launches 4th spy satellite to boost North Korea surveillance
South Korea’s military now operates an increasingly integrated cluster...
Indonesia seeks space defense cooperation with Japan’s military
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Baidu Boosts China Mapping Service With More Images

Baidu, China's dominant online search service, said on Monday that it has signed a multiyear subscription deal with commercial imagery company DigitalGlobe. Baidu aims to improve its online mapping service to better compete with its chief rival, Google. By...

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

Airborne Search and Rescue Detection & Geotagging Development

Software and hardware engineering efforts at ITRES have moved into the next phase towards integrating our In-Flight Processing System (IPS) development with new highresolution pushframe thermal TABI-1800 imager. “This is a big milestone for us. It moves...

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Blom ASA and Unicom – Contract Win in Saudi Arabia

Blom CGR, the Italian subsidiary of Blom ASA, has partnered with the Saudi Arabian firm Unicom to secure a contract with the Development Commission of Medina (DCOM). The contract involves providing professional services for the production of...

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

GeoEye Selects Cleversafe for Satellite Imagery Active Archive

GeoEye has selected Cleversafe, Inc., to meet its requirements for a highly reliable and secure active archive  to support their business mission and to maintain their image archive.

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

China Opens 2012 with ZiYuan-3 Launch via Long March 4B

China launched a new high-resolution remote sensing satellite on Monday at 03:17 UTC using the Long March 4B (Chang Zheng-4B -Y26) launch vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, the...

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Digital Revenue Record to Ease Preparing Land Database

The entire revenue record of Haryana would be digitised and updated using high resolution satellite imageries for the seamless preparation of a database of land records. The updated maps would be geo-referenced using the benchmark Ground Control...

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Manila’s Natural Disaster Risk Areas in 3D Maps

Areas in Metro Manila at high risk during natural disasters may now be known through an accurate hazard map, a product of Australia’s high-resolution three-dimensional mapping technology, which had been turned over to the Philippine government recently. Australian...

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

New Zealand Embarks on Four-Year, $4 Million Mapping Programme

The government of New Zealand has announced a research programme today to use satellite imagery and geospatial mapping to map forests, pastures, rivers and cities across the country. The four-year Land Cover Research Programme was launched with...

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Port Moresby From Space: New 50cm Sat Imagery Available

The GeoEye-1 satellite has recently imaged the Port Moresby region over the last few months and obtained some remarkable, cloud free datasets.   “Given the economic activity in this region and elsewhere in New Guinea, the interest in...