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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Guides Cassini on its Grand Finale at Saturn

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), played a vital role in the planned plunge of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft into Saturn. As the spacecraft entered the atmosphere, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s onboard Reaction Control Thrusters worked to counter atmospheric torques, helping Cassini fight to keep its high-gain antenna pointed at

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

Unmanned Systems Industry Leaders are Gathering in Odense

Odense, Denmark — With over one hundred participants, topping 750 high quality visitors and an international speakers line up, TUS Nordics promises to be the exciting fifth edition for the entire unmanned systems industry. Covering the full civilian and commercial spectrum of the use of unmanned systems.   As the projected costs of offshore wind

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

WIVE Project Uses 5G to Increase the Business Value of Automated Transport, Smart Grids, Massive Machine Connectivity and Media Delivery

Turku, Finland – An industry group led by Nokia Bell Labs and including several academics in Finland has established a collaboration project called WIVE (WIreless for VErticals) to make it possible for new types of industries to gain competitive advantage from the latest wireless technologies, especially 5G. The project, co-funded by the Finnish Funding Agency

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

GfK Releases New Maps for Russia

Bruchsal, Germany – GfK recently updated its digital maps of Russia. The maps offer up-to-date coverage of the boundaries of Russia’s administrative and postal regions. As such, they provide a reliable foundation for geographic analyses of market and company operations across all industries. GfK has updated its maps of Russia to reflect the latest regional

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

GA-ASI Conducts First Flight Test from Upgraded FTTC

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – On August 30th, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) flew its first test flight out of its new Flight Test and Training Center (FTTC) facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The GA-ASI Block 5 Predator® B/MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) flew a round-trip of approximately 1,075 nautical miles. This was the

Monday, September 18th, 2017

NASA Flights Map Summer Melt of Greenland Ice

Operation IceBridge is flying in Greenland to measure how much ice has melted during the summer. The flights, which began on Aug. 25, 2017, and will go on until Sept. 21, 2017, repeat paths flown this spring and aim to monitor seasonal changes in the elevation of the ice sheet. “We started to mount these

Friday, September 15th, 2017

Aerial Mapping Company Bluesky Celebrates 2017 Flying Success

Aerial mapping company Bluesky is celebrating following its most successful flying season to date. As temperatures soared, Bluesky took to the skies deploying three dedicated survey aircraft. To date, Bluesky has captured more than 70,000 square kilometres of aerial photography in 2017 – an area more than twice the size of the Netherlands – of

Friday, September 15th, 2017

Utah Department of Transportation Awards PTFS Contract to Use Knowvation GS as Enterprise Geospatial Content Management System

NORTH BETHESDA, Md.– iReach/ Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS), today announced that it received a contract award from Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) for its flagship Knowvation GS Geospatial Content Management Systems (GeoCMS). PTFS won this five year contract in a full and open competition that included a detailed technical proposal against a robust

Friday, September 15th, 2017

Edmonton Metro Capital Region Board Wins Esri Canada’s Award of Excellence

EDMONTON, Esri Canada User Conference – The Capital Region Board (CRB) of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region has won an Award of Excellence from Esri Canada for demonstrating how geographic information system (GIS) technology can help disparate government officials work in concert to make decisions. That collaboration will save the Region millions of dollars and help

Friday, September 15th, 2017

Drone Guarder, Inc. Announces Version 2.0 Operating System For Seamless Functionality with their Apps

LONDON- Drone Guarder, Inc. (OTCQB:DRNG): The Drone Guarder software and app development team have completed Version 2.0 of the DG Operating System, which provides seamless functionality with its apps, scheduled soon to be launched on Apple and Google app stores. The 2.0 Operating System is the master program that manages the DG drone, which is autonomously App controlled.