Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has confirmed the successful launch of two satellites, NovaSAR-1, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, and SSTL S1-4, a high resolution optical Earth Observation satellite. The two satellites were launched into a 580km sun-synchronous orbit on board the PSLV launch vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India
Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
Galileo and BeiDou observation data are now included with Trimble VRS Now subscriptions in North America. The addition of the Galileo and BeiDou constellations allow users to make use of more satellites, enabling more robust performance when working in harsh GNSS environments such as in urban canyons and under canopy. Trimble VRS Now in North
Monday, September 17th, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The U.S. Air Force announced selection of Lockheed Martin for a fixed-price-type production contract for 22 GPS III Follow-On satellites with a total estimated contract value up to $7.2 billion. “The world is dependent on GPS, from getting directions to getting cash from an ATM or trading on the stock exchange,”
Monday, September 17th, 2018
Last night, at the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee in Stuttgart, Germany, Joan Masó received the OGC’s prestigious Kenneth D. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award is presented each year to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to advancing OGC’s vision of fully integrating geospatial information into the world’s
Monday, September 17th, 2018
Los Angeles, CA – US Nuclear Corp. (OTCBB: UCLE) recently attended and participated in the Urban Shield event from September 7-10, 2018 in the Bay Area. Urban Shield is a disaster training exercise involving local, national, and international first responder agencies, including: the national guard, police and fire departments, search & rescue, homeland security, FBI,
Friday, September 14th, 2018
ROME, N.Y. – Microdrones will be a main contributor at this year’s Commercial UAV Expo of America, offering a series of drone workshops at the event and an in-depth technical symposium following the conclusion of the Expo. Dr. Mohamed Mostafa, Director of mdSolutions at Microdrones, who is well-known for his expertise in the geomatics community,
Friday, September 14th, 2018
TOULOUSE, France – Delair, a leading global supplier of commercial drone solutions, today announced that it has recently closed its expansion round with an investment from Intel Capital. For the past year, Delair and Intel have been collaborating on the Intel® Insight Platform, a cloud-based digital asset management solution that leverages Delair’s extensive suite of
Friday, September 14th, 2018
ICESat-2 launch marks final flight for the Delta II launch vehicle; would be its 100th successful launch in a row Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-27 and AJ10 engines have powered the rocket’s first and second stages with 100 percent reliability AJ10 engine family will continue to fly as part of NASA’s Orion spacecraft program SACRAMENTO, Calif. –
Friday, September 14th, 2018
ACEINNA announces OpenIMUTM – a first of its kind professionally supported, open-source GPS/GNSS-aided inertial navigation software stack for low-cost precise navigation applications. Whether you are developing autonomously guided vehicles for industrial applications, autonomous cars, factory or industrial robots, drones, ROVs, any kind of smart machine which needs to move – fast or slow, on
Friday, September 14th, 2018
International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) and Lidar Magazine are excited to announce the second annual Lidar Leader Awards, which will be presented at ILMF, taking place January 28-30, 2019 in Denver. This is an exciting opportunity for the geospatial community to recognize the amazing work being done every day by professionals like you. The joint effort
