Satellites
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Applanix, introduced today POSPac MMS V6, its latest version of office software for mobile mapping. Featuring full support for GPS and GLONASS satellite observables with its industry-leading IN-FusionTM technology and SmartBaseTM Virtual Reference Station processing engines, POSPac...
Monday, March 12th, 2012
AutoVAZ and federal net operator “NIS GLONASS” signed an agreement about strategic partnership in sphere of mass introduction of GLONASS technology in car transport. Companies agreed about the joint realization of program “ERA-GLONASS” and about development and...
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The European Union will award Germany's OHB AG a 250-million-euro ($327 mln) contract on Thursday to build eight satellites for the bloc's Galileo navigation system, EU officials with knowledge of the decision said. Read More
Friday, January 13th, 2012
The Russian news agency Interfax informed that from 2013 all new Russian-made cars will be equipped with the ERA-GLONASS by default, quoting Yaroslav Domaratskiy, Director of Customer Equipment R&D Centre at NIS-GLONASS. GLONASS is the Russian Global Navigation...
Friday, December 30th, 2011
China this week reached a milestone in its drive to master the military use of space with the launch of trials for its Beidou satellite global positioning network, a move that will bring it one step closer...
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
China's Beidou satellite navigation system is operational, albeit mainly in China, and say they plan to have free, global coverage in place by 2020. At a press conference the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said that Beidou – which translates as Big...
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Two more Glonass navigation satellites will be up and running before the end of the year, Russian space officials said. “We plan to put two more satellites into operation before the end of the year, and another at...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
RapidEye announced today that it has signed a contract with China’s Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) to cover almost five million square kilometers of China over the next few months. This is the third consecutive year that RapidEye was a...
Monday, December 5th, 2011
THE WA ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection) map was recently released by the Centre of Excellence for 3D Mineral Mapping (C3DMM) and marks a milestone in mineral exploration putting WA at the forefront of geosciences. Director...
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Under the plan, the Vietnam Space Centre, covering an area of nine hectares at Hoa Lac High-tech Park in Hanoi, will specialise in researching and producing small satellites to be used in domestic weather forecast, geodesy, exploration,...
