Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
EvaluateLocate closes £300k seed investment round, valuing the company at £2.75 million. Geospatial AI start-up, EvaluateLocate, has completed a £300,000 seed investment round at a valuation of £2.75 million. The company is also simultaneously bringing to market its subscription app for the UK, the first territory in a planned global roll-out. The raise will enable
Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
First contract in Malaysia for seismic data acquisition and marine geophysical specialist PXGEO has secured its first contract in Malaysia to deliver offshore seismic data acquisition services under a two-year agreement. This includes a minimum commitment of 365 days of acquisition activity over the contract term utilizing the PXGEO 2 seismic vessel which will mobilize
Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Nottingham-based testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC) business Phenna Group has continued its acquisition spree having acquired Australian-based ISGroup. The move marks Phenna’s 15th deal of 2025 and its first significant move into the geospatial sector. Perth-headquartered ISGroup, founded in 1997 by Peter Rullo, has grown from a surveying business into a multi-division group providing
Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Half-way between the last and the next World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), it remains unclear how global radio frequency regulators will vote when asked whether the 8-GHz X-band spectrum, where satellites have primary status, should be thrown open for use by terrestrial mobile broadband services. The 194 national members of the International Telecommunication
Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Elon Musk’s SpaceX postponed the 10th launch of its Starship rocket due to cloudy weather in Texas on Monday (August 25, 2025), another slight delay in its efforts to overcome development setbacks and achieve several long-sought milestones essential to the Mars rocket system’s reusable design. The 71-metres tall Super Heavy booster and its 52-metres tall
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
Esri Ireland, a market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has announced a new partnership with surveying and data acquisition specialist, Murphy Geospatial (a Woolpert Company). This strategic collaboration will combine advanced location intelligence and geospatial data capabilities to accelerate the delivery of large-scale infrastructure, urban planning, and environmental projects across the island of Ireland.
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
NASA and IBM have launched an advanced open-source AI model called ‘Surya’, designed to understand solar flares, predict space weather, and protect critical technological infrastructure on Earth. The model has been trained on nine years of high-resolution solar data obtained from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This AI model offers a 16% improvement in accuracy
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
The robotic X-37B is carrying laser-communication tech and an advanced quantum sensor, among other gear. The latest mission of the U.S. Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane is underway. The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida tonight (Aug. 21) at 11:50 p.m. EDT (0350 GMT on Aug. 22). The
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
The recently launched startup provides location-based analysis to businesses EvaluateLocate, a London-headquartered startup developing geospatial intelligence software, has secured a £300,000 seed investment as it launches its new app. The firm aims to use spatial reasoning technology to provide location analysis to clients to give a clear understanding of a region before launching a venture
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
ideaForge Technology Limited, a global leader in drone technology, today unveiled its most versatile mapping UAV, the Q6V2 GEO, making its worldwide debut at PRAGYA 2025, the company’s inaugural customer event themed this year for Advancing Possibilities in Geospatial Intelligence. The launch marks a significant milestone in ideaForge’s mission to equip industries, government agencies, and
