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Monday, February 19th, 2018

DroneBase Secures $12 Million Round of Series B Funding to Expand Drone Operations Technology

LOS ANGELES – DroneBase, the largest global drone operations company, today announced it has raised $12 million in Series B funding to expand its drone operations services for enterprises. Union Square Ventures (USV) and Upfront Ventures co-led the round alongside DJI and new investors Hearst Ventures and Pritzker Group. This brings DroneBase’s total funding to

Monday, February 19th, 2018

DroneDeploy Launches Real-Time Mapping for Instant Aerial Data and Analysis

SAN FRANCISCO -DroneDeploy, the leading drone mapping software platform in the world, today announced the release of Live Map — a first-of-its-kind feature that allows any drone operator to create real-time maps in the field with their iOS device. Users plan a flight, take off, and see maps render on-screen during flight — without the

Thursday, February 15th, 2018

Pitney Bowes Simplifies and Accelerates Data Accessibility with New Software and Data Marketplace

STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 15, 2018 – Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that provides innovative products, solutions and data to power commerce, today announced the global availability of its new Software and Data Marketplace, simplifying access to hundreds of data sets across the Retail, Insurance, Real Estate and Financial Services industries. The Software

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

Global Mapper v19.1 Now Available with 3D Profile Line Exporting, Multivariate Querying, and Expanded Drag-and-Drop Window Docking

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Mapper version 19.1. This intermediate release augments the impressive list of new features and functions included in version 19.0 with even more new tools and improvements to the existing functionality. Highlights of this release include a completely redesigned attribute querying tool; a new option

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

Germany’s Highest Share of Single-Person Households in Regensburg

Bruchsal, Germany, February 14, 2018 – A new GfK study reveals the regional distribution of Germany’s demographic traits, such as family type, age ranges and income levels. The nation’s highest share of single-person households is in the urban district of Regensburg, while the highest share of households with children is in the rural district of

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

Maritime Industry Readies for a New Era of Choice with Iridium Certus(SM) Global Launch Partners

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 14, 2018 – Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:IRDM) announced today that Marlink, Speedcast, Applied Satellite Technologies Ltd (AST) and Satcom Global are the initial global maritime launch partners for Iridium Certus.  The first regional maritime launch partner, Arion, will focus on delivering Iridium Certus to the Asian market. These commitments represent a major

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

Ball Aerospace Delivers Flight Cryocooler Early for NASA’s Landsat Mission

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 14, 2018 – Ball Aerospace delivered the TIRS-2 Flight Cryocooler for the Landsat 9 TIRS-2 instrument ahead of schedule to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Achieving this milestone early will allow GSFC additional time and options during the instrument integration and test phase. For more than 45 years, Landsat Earth-observing satellite missions

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Farewell to Pioneering Pollution Sensor

On Jan. 31, 2018, NASA ended the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer’s (TES) almost 14-year career of discovery. Launched in 2004 on NASA’s Aura spacecraft, TES was the first instrument designed to monitor ozone in the lowest layers of the atmosphere directly from space. Its high-resolution observations led to new measurements of atmospheric gases that have altered

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Woolpert Partners with Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport on Drone Utilization

Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport (SAV) is partnering with Woolpert to integrate unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technologies into airport and airfield operations. SAV is the first commercial service airport to formally integrate drone technologies into its regular operational programs for inspection, maintenance, monitoring and facility management, including supporting its Part 139 inspection protocols. SAV is integrating

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Seven AIAA Members Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) congratulates the newly elected members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE), seven of whom also are AIAA members. “On behalf of our nearly 30,000 members, let me say how proud we are to count seven of our own members, from industry, academia, and