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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

Lockheed Martin Makes Tiny Satellite Cooling System Three Times More Powerful

Palo Alto, Calif, Aug. 25, 2015 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) scientists are packing three times the power density into a key satellite cooling system whose previous design is already the lightest in its class. This project continues the company’s effort to reduce component size, enabling compact, higher-power spacecraft payloads and smaller sensor platforms back on

Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

$255 Billion for Manufacture & Launch of 1,400 Satellites Over Next Decade

Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama, August 25, 2015 — According to Euroconsult’s newly released report, Satellites to be Built & Launched by 2024, 140 satellites with launch mass over 50 kg will be launched on average each year over the next decade for governments and commercial companies. In comparison with last year’s forecast, the number of satellites is

Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

GIScience Patriarch to Reveal Predictions for the Future of Spatial Sciences

August 25, 2015 — On the 25th anniversary of the establishment of GIScience, the industry’s irrefutable ‘founding father’ will present to Australia’s leading Geographic Information System (GIS) technology specialists at a forum in Melbourne. 

Monday, August 24th, 2015

TerraGo Partners with CHC Navigation to Deliver High Accuracy and Improved Productivity to Mobile GPS Data Collection

Washington, DC, August 24, 2015 — TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, announces a technology partnership with CHC Navigation that combines the mobile GPS collaboration platform, TerraGo Edge, with CHC’s rugged high-accuracy GNSS systems to meet the needs of the most demanding field positioning tasks.

Monday, August 24th, 2015

Azavea Awarded Research Grants to Build Web Tools for Managing and Modeling with Earth Observation Data

Philadelphia, PA, August 24, 2015 — Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software company, was awarded two Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants; one from the U.S. Department of Energy and one from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  

Monday, August 24th, 2015

ESO and ESA Directors General sign Cooperation Agreement

August 24, 2015 — On 20 August 2015 the Director General of ESO, Tim de Zeeuw, and the Director General of ESA, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, signed a cooperation agreement between the two organisations at ESO’s offices in Santiago, Chile. The ESA Director General was accompanied by Álvaro Giménez, Director of Science and Robotic Exploration at ESA, and

Monday, August 24th, 2015

U.S. Army Awards AeroVironment Contracts Totaling $47 Million for RQ-11B Raven and RQ-20A Puma AE Unmanned Aircraft Systems Sustainment

MONROVIA, Calif., August 24, 2015 — AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced receipt since May 1, 2015 of ten orders from the United States Army totaling $47.1 million for RQ-11B Raven® and RQ-20A Puma™AE unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sustainment. This total value includes seven orders awarded on July 23 totaling $35,196,388.

Monday, August 24th, 2015

Satellites Focus on Rescue and Damage Control Work (China)

BEIJING, August 24, 2015 — China has mobilized at least eight of its satellites to help with search-and-rescue and damage control work after last week’s massive blasts in Tianjin.

Monday, August 24th, 2015

Blaze Terra Gives Access to over 200,000 Landsat Images

August 24, 2015 — Data – Eternix Ltd., leading provider of next-generation software for GIS visualization and editing in 3D, announces the availability of Landsat’s database through Blaze Terra, allowing users to instantly review and analyze the entire data directly in a GIS setting.Blaze Terra gives access to all of Landsat’s close to two hundred

Saturday, August 22nd, 2015

Taiwan Utilizes SmartDO to Optimize the Remote Sensing Instrument of FORMOSAT-8 Satellite

August 22, 2015 – Taiwan began to collaborate with US company on designing and developing its own satellite since 1994. In  January of 1999, the first satellite FORMOSAT-1 was launched, and retired in 2004.  Later in 2004 and 2006 FORMOSAT-2 and FORMOSAT-3 were also launched. In 2010, FORMOSAT-5 passed all design verification, and is waiting to