Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
12 July 2016 — In the most detailed picture to date, information from ESA’s CryoSat satellite reveals how melting ice in Greenland has recently contributed twice as much to sea-level rise as the prior two decades.Between 2011 and 2014, Greenland lost around one trillion tonnes of ice. This corresponds to a 0.75 mm contribution to
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd (GES) have today announced a new partnership to go beyond Earth’s orbit and provide a new model of low cost, high value, space exploration and science. With the ultimate aim of supporting a Solar System network, the SSTL-GES Lunar Pathfinder mission and its successors will provide
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
12 July 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the release of version 3.0 of the OGC Catalogue Services standard. Catalogue services support the ability to publish and search geospatial data and services. Information (metadata) provided by catalogues supports evaluation and further processing by both humans and software. The OGC Catalogue interface standards specify the
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
Genscape announced today that it is expanding its AIS and maritime data services collaboration with exactEarth (TSX: XCT). For more than three years, the two companies have had a successful collaboration combining their respective industry-leading capabilities in satellite and terrestrial AIS data services to offer a range of global AIS products to governments and commercial
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS), a newly formed business division of Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB), today announced a three-year extension award of $1.4 million from UAV Tactical Systems Ltd. (U-TacS) to provide additional Tactical Common Data Links (TCDL) for U.K. Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Watchkeeper Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program. The Watchkeeper program,
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
Airbus Group – Airbus Defence and Space presents its Mobile General Ground Station at the 2016 Warsaw NATO Summit During the 2016 Warsaw NATO Summit, Airbus Defence and Space has showcased its newly developed Mobile General Ground Station (MGGS) to heads of state and senior NATO and national officials. MGGS is part of the NATO’s
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
CyberCity 3D, Inc., a top geospatial 3D modeling and streaming services company headquartered in Los Angeles County, CA (El Segundo) has announced that it has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in connection with the Company’s patent application entitled “COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROOF MODELING AND ASSET MANAGEMENT.”
Monday, July 11th, 2016
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 11, 2016 — UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), announced the award of a study contract to complete the integration of its MS-177 sensor system into the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS). Awarded by Lockheed Martin, the contract will support the USAF and
Monday, July 11th, 2016
FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW, July 11, 2016 — UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), was awarded a contract to support the integration and testing of the MS-177 multi-spectral imaging (MSI) and long-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensor onto the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). Adding
Monday, July 11th, 2016
Ordnance Survey (OS) and CompeGPS are pleased to announce a new partnership to release a range of outdoor activity GPS units. The exciting move is being made ahead of the leading international trade fair, the OutDoor Show in Friedrichshafen, where the new GPS units will be unveiled for the first time. As leading brands in their
