Friday, July 29th, 2011
Norwegian telecom provider Telenor Group reports revenues of NOK 24,4 billion for the second quarter of 2011, representing an organic revenue growth of 7%, which was better than expected. “Half-way into 2011, we have captured growth opportunities and delivered another quarter with 7 percent organic revenue growth combined with steady customer growth and healthy margins. The
Friday, July 29th, 2011
The Kremlin just can’t wait to dazzle and impress the global community with its GLONASS, a satellite positioning technology which is being touted here as a credible challenge to established U.S. rival GPS. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who oversees GLONASS development, told reporters on Monday that the home-made system will achieve 100 percent
Friday, July 29th, 2011
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and partners were awarded a US$8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will be used to excel postgraduate sanitation education and research with a focus on solutions for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. This 5-year capacity building and research project was
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Does Europe really want to dictate an idea for climate protection to the rest of the world? That’s the question being asked by US leaders in Washington, who are throwing their support behind a protest by the American airline industry against an EU climate rule. The new regulation comes into force in January 2012 and requires
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The Singapore Satellite Positioning Reference Network, SiReNT is a nation-wide reference network developed to support real-time high precision land surveying and other positioning applications. An initiative by Singapore Land Authority (SLA), SiReNT provides Differential GPS (DGPS) services which supports the latest technology of Network-RTK. Read More
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) organized its fourth, Spatial Challenge. This year, 37 teams of students from 18 institutions took part in this annual Geographic Information System (GIS) competition. The teams showcased their efforts at The Plaza, National Library Building on 27 July, marking the culmination of six months of hard work by the students. Guest-Of-Honour,
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
In its basic definition, the term territory denotes a physical space with a particular topography and natural resources that are used in a specific way by its inhabitants and/or by distinct social actors that interact within it. As such, a territory is a space that is determined by its physical conditions and the natural resources located within
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
China says it successfully launched another satellite for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network system Wednesday. The satellite was placed into a geostationary orbit by a Long March-3A rocket after a Wednesday launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported. Read more
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The International Space Station (ISS) will be de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean after 2020 like its Russian predecessor Mir, Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) Deputy Head Vitaly Davydov said on Wednesday. “We will be forced to sink the ISS. We cannot leave it in orbit as it is a very complicated and a heavy object.
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The Arirang-2 is an earth observation satellite launched into the orbit by a Russian rocket on July 28, 2006, from Russia`s Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The Russian rocket developer Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center also manufactured the first-phase rocket for Korea’s first space projectile Naro. The Arirang-2 is the lone Korean satellite that is operating.
