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From drones to space tech, Japan looks to startups to strengthen its defences
Tokyo is stepping up efforts to harness dual-use technologies...
South Korea’s Space Agency Seeks 47% Budget Hike for 2027; Regular Nuri Launches, Lunar Lander Development to Begin
The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) has proposed a 2027...
Space42 launches Future Spacers Programme to develop UAE space talent
Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company, has launched the...
US, China arm for space warfare: hunter satellites and orbital weapons
Amid the rapidly-evolving field of military space operations, Beijing...
ISRO Puts India’s First Geo Imaging Satellite In Orbit, PM Modi Hails EOS-05 Launch Aboard GSLV-F17
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully launched EOS-05,...
China releases first nationwide geometric benchmark imagery, setting a unified ‘spatial scale’ for satellite remote sensing
China's Ministry of Natural Resources has released its first...
India to have its own space station by 2035, says ISRO chairman
Speaking at the 14th convocation ceremony of IIT-BHU, ISRO...
Isro will not make any launch vehicle, all tech to be handed to private sector
IN-SPACe chairman Pawan Goenka said Isro is moving launch...
North Korea fires ballistic missiles as US-South Korea drills near end
South Korea has condemned North Korea’s launch ⁠of more...
Orbitworks ships UAE-built Altair-1 to US ahead of October launch
Abu Dhabi-based satellite company Orbitworks has shipped Altair-1, the...

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Friday, February 24th, 2012

Korea Ready to Fund $40 Million for Baku City Cadastre

Today in Baku Garib Mammadov, chairman of the State Land & Cartography Committee of Azerbaijan, has claimed that at present within the project supported by the Korean government it is being developed the urban cadastre of Khazar...

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Four Korean Satellites Expected to Be Launched in 2012

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute said that a multi-purpose satellite named Arirang-5 will take off from the Yasny rocket launch site in Russia next year. One of four Korean satellites planned for 2012, the Arirang-5 is the nation's...

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Hanyang Univ College of Engineering Nurturing Korea’s Engineers of Tomorrow

"Over 52,000 graduates have passed through the gates of Hanyang University College of Engineering (HUCE), and all have been part of the modernization of Korea that happened in the last few decades, from key personnel of national...

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...

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2012 Busan, Korea

Welcome to the International Water Association (IWA)’s first electronic newsletter for the next IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition which will be held in Busan, South Korea from 16 to 21 September 2012. As planning proceeds and...

Monday, February 28th, 2011

ETRI Korea Develops GPS/Galileo Receiver

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea announced that it had completed the technology development of a GPS (US Global Positioning System) and Galileo (Europe's Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS) receiver, which was able to receive and process positioning signals both...

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Korea’s Cartographic Legacy

About two months ago, renowned Korean scholar Choi Suh-myun received an unexpected package from Atsushi Hirata, director of the Ryukoku University Library in Japan. Choi was taken aback by its content: a masterful digitally enhanced recreation of a...

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Value of a Map: North Korea – South Korea

This past week saw North Korea launch live ammunition into South Korea. The event has raised tensions in the region. While the original border between these two countries was mapped when the Armistice was signed in 1953,...