Monday, May 23rd, 2016
WASHINGTON, May 23, 2016 – NASA has awarded Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) two 1-year options, adding $384 million of contract ceiling, to continue supporting the Space Communications Network Services (SCNS) program. The award was received during the third quarter of Harris’ fiscal 2016. Harris will continue to support SCNS, which provides most of the communications
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
We are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the 9th ISDE Symposium (Halifax, Canada, 2015) have now been published online by IOP Science Publishing. They are published as Volume 34(1) (2016) in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science — an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Specifically, the ISDE9 Proceedings are located at http://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1755-1315/34/1 . The 43 papers are listed alphabetically by
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
Geneva – More than two dozen African nations committed to mobilizing the Earth observation community to contribute to the implementation of the Africa Space Policy and Strategy, adopted by African Heads of State at the 26th African Union Summit held in January, 2016. That was one of the primary outcomes of the first Symposium of
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
TAMPA, FL.— At Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, May 23, 2016 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a world leader in unmanned aircraft systems, today announced the United States Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) is evaluating the company’s new tethered unmanned aircraft system, named Tether Eye™, for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) and security applications. The
Friday, May 20th, 2016
Redlands, California — Chris Cappelli, Esri’s director of global sales, will be a featured keynote speaker at this year’s Digital Enterprise Show (DES), to be held in Madrid, Spain, May 24–26, 2016. Cappelli will discuss how geographic information system (GIS) technology provides organizations with a powerful location-based platform that automates, integrates, and improves processes from
Friday, May 20th, 2016
The Sentinel-1A radar satellite has detected a potential oil slick in the eastern Mediterranean Sea – in the same area where EgyptAir flight MS804 disappeared early yesterday morning on its way from Paris to Cairo. The image was acquired by Sentinel-1A yesterday at 16:00 GMT (18:00 CEST). ESA has given information related to the image
Friday, May 20th, 2016
Leicestershire, 20 May 2016 – Aerial survey specialist Bluesky has announced the start of the 2016 flying season. Following a cold start to meteorological Spring, warmer temperatures and below average precipitation has allowed Bluesky to mobilise its dedicated fleet of aerial survey aircraft on more than 50 occasions. This advantageous start to the 2016 flying
Friday, May 20th, 2016
DENVER – In the future, when mission needs change for the Global Positioning System (GPS), the U.S. Air Force will be able to respond — thanks to some engineering forethought and the innovative design of Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) GPS III satellite. Designed with evolution in mind, Lockheed Martin’s GPS III satellites for the
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
T-SYSTEMS OPEN TELEKOM CLOUD CHALLENGE – Handling Big Data with Cloud Computing Cloud service and big data from space: For the T-Systems Open Telekom Cloud Challenge these key terms are driven with enthusiasm, inventive spirit and are made tangible. As a matter of fact, cloud computing simplifies the operational use of big data, no matter
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
Electricity distributors could slash tens of millions of dollars from the industry’s 800 million dollar annual vegetation management bill by simply embracing state-of-the-art smart mapping technology, says leading industry expert. Pinnacle ArborPro Managing Director and vegetation management strategist Travis Wyper said the technology – also known as Geographic Information System (GIS) technology – creates a
