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Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio and Spaceflight Industries Finalize Alliance to Manufacture Smallsats at Scale and Deliver Innovative Geospatial Services

WASHINGTON- At the Satellite 2018 conference, The Space Alliance formed by Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) and Telespazio (Leonardo 67%, Thales 33%) announced today it has officially taken a minority stake in Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, having received all government approvals for the transaction. This investment is part of an overall fundraising effort of

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Datum Ingeniería to Supply Microdrones mdSolutions in Colombia

ROME, N.Y. – Datum Ingeniería, one of the leading commercial and industrial equipment suppliers in Colombia, has announced they are now offering Microdrones UAV solutions. Javier Salgado, Sales Manager for Datum Ingeniería and certified UAV Pilot, is excited to add Microdrones mdSolutions to their product catalog.  He says, “We’ve been able to demonstrate Microdrones’ advanced

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

PlaceIQ Expands Partnership with LiveRamp, Offering Seamless Access to Thousands of Location-based Audiences for People-Based Marketing

NEW YORK – PlaceIQ, the company building a new model of consumer behavior with location data and insights, today announced an expanded partnership with LiveRamp®, an Acxiom® company (NASDAQ: ACXM) and leading provider of omnichannel identity resolution. For the first time, PlaceIQ will offer its advanced location-based audiences through LiveRamp’s IdentityLink™ Data Store feature which offers unique, people-based

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Stratum – ONF Launches Major New Open Source SDN Switching Platform with Support from Google

MENLO PARK, Calif. – Today the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced the strategy for a set of next-generation SDN interfaces and, along with support from Google, the launch of Stratum™, an open source project to implement an open reference platform for a truly “software defined” data plane. Founding Members: Stratum is being formed to execute on

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

International Launch Services (ILS) and Effective Space Announce the ILS Proton Breeze M Launch of Two Satellite-Servicing SPACE DRONE Spacecraft in 2020

WASHINGTON – ILS, a U.S.-based leading global commercial launch services provider and UK headquartered Effective Space announce their intent to contract to deliver two of Effective Space’s SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft into orbit. The Proton Breeze M rideshare launch is planned for 2020 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. “ILS is focused on serving the satellite

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Thales and Safran Name Jean-François Delepau as New Chairman of the Sofradir Group

Veurey-Voroize, near Grenoble, France – Sofradir Group shareholders Thales and Safran announce today the appointment of Jean-François Delepau as its new chairman, with immediate effect. Previously managing director of ULIS, a Sofradir Group company, Mr. Delepau will oversee all the defense, aerospace and commercial market operations of the three companies within the Group: Sofradir, ULIS

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Esri FedGIS Conference Showcases How Spatial Analytics Turns Data Insight into Action for Government

Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced that it will be hosting the twenty-first annual Esri Federal GIS (FedGIS) Conference, to be held March 20–21 at the Walter E. Washington Center in Washington, DC. All federal government agency workers are invited to join an anticipated audience of 3,000 attendees and share their

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018

Ash from Dinosaur-Era Volcanoes Linked with Shale Oil, Gas

Nutrient-rich ash from an enormous flare-up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs’ reign kicked off a chain of events that led to the formation of shale gas and oil fields from Texas to Montana, according to a new study by Rice University geologists that appears in Nature Publishing’s online journal Scientific Reports.

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018

Septentrio Announces Special Version of AsteRx-U MARINE Receiver Dedicated to Fugro Marinestar Support

Leuven, Belgium – 13 March 2018 – Septentrio, announced today at Oceanology International in London, an additional version of its AsteRx-U MARINE receiver with support for the Fugro Marinestar service. The AsteRx-U MARINE with Fugro Marinestar PPP support will be available from June. By incorporating Fugro Marinestar – satellite-based positioning services that make use of

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018

Carnegie Satellite Solutions Unveils Year’s Most Exciting Consumer Satellite Advancements at Satellite 2018

WASHINGTON and AUSTIN, Texas – Carnegie Satellite Solutions, a division of Carnegie Technologies, announced today that it is unveiling at the Satellite 2018 conference the Company’s latest innovative hardware and software advancements, including a transportable Ku-band antenna and SatBridge, the world’s most feature-rich and low-cost satellite hotspot that enables “Follow-Me Roaming” capability and allows consumers