Thursday, April 5th, 2018
San Jose, California – Deep Space Industries (DSI) announced today that it has signed a contract to provide its Comet water-based satellite propulsion systems for the BlackSky Earth observation constellation of smallsats. DSI will provide an initial block of 20 water thrusters for the BlackSky satellites which are scheduled to start launching later this year.
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
PALO ALTO, CA – SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today it was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and build critical equipment for a spacecraft that will explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
SAN JOSE, Calif. – MapD Technologies, the extreme analytics™ platform provider, today announced the launch of MapD Cloud, the first ever software-as-a service (SaaS) offering of GPU-accelerated analytics. Now, analysts and data scientists everywhere have one-click access to the world’s fastest open source SQL engine and visual analytics platform. Unlike mainstream analytics tools, the MapD platform is
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
REDLANDS, Calif.- Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced the opening of its Storytelling with Maps Contest. Participants are invited to submit their top Esri Story Maps projects for a chance to win prizes and peer recognition at the Esri User Conference. Contest participants can submit up to three preexisting or new story
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
PALO ALTO, Calif.—SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today it was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and build critical equipment for a spacecraft that will explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
RESTON, Va. – Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a global science and technology leader, was awarded a task order by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop the 7th Generation geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellite used for the FAA Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). The task order has a four-year development phase, and one 10-year Operations and Maintenance
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.– Hexagon US Federal, a subsidiary of Hexagon, has appointed Tammer Olibah president and chief executive officer. A seasoned executive, Olibah brings nearly two decades of experience leading, developing and implementing technical solutions in both the public and private sectors. “As a proven leader and strong innovator, we are pleased to welcome Tammer to Hexagon
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, April 3, 2018—senseFly, the world’s leading producer of professional drone solutions, today announces a new software integration with Trimble, which optimizes the drone mapping workflow for geospatial professionals. The new integration between the company’s software ensures the smoothest possible end-to-end mapping drone (UAS) workflow. senseFly operators can now, within their drone’s recently
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, USA – East View Geospatial (EVG), a provider of content-rich geospatial products, is now producing gold-standard large-scale topographic data as an off-the-shelf offering under the product name EV-FGD – East View Foundation Geospatial Data. EVG has long produced foundation data and mapping for government and industry partners. Work has ranged across scales and
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Rusk O’Brien Gido + Partners is pleased to announce the addition of Carl Von Hake, CPA to the ROG team. Carl specializes in corporate financial advisory services including strategic business planning, financing strategies, operational effectiveness, ownership transition, stock structuring, business valuation, corporate governance and profit enhancement. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Carl will lead
