UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía has released its GNSS-denied navigation kit designed to offer navigation capabilities in challenging environments.

The kit combines UAV Navigation’s attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), the POLAR-300, with its Visual Navigation System, the VNS01, designed to offer unmatched dead reckoning navigation capabilities with minimal drift.

The technology offers users improved navigational accuracy, with error rates …

Iridium Communications Inc. has announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Satelles, Inc., the leader in highly secure satellite-based time and location services that complement and protect GPS and other GNSS-reliant systems. The service, named Satellite Time and Location (STL), is an easy-to-adopt, highly secure solution that increases the efficiency and reliability of timing …

CHC Navigation has launched the RS10, an innovative and affordable handheld SLAM LiDAR laser scanner integrated with a full RTK GNSS receiver.
Designed to improve efficiency across a wide range of mapping and surveying applications, the RS10 provides professionals with a versatile, all-in-one tool for capturing rich 3D geospatial data in both outdoor and indoor environments.
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Scientific Systems, an industry leader in advanced artificial intelligence for defense applications, has announced that it is continuing development of ImageNav™, the company’s non-GPS, image-based, precision navigation software. The company has recently extended and demonstrated its image-based solution during flight operations ranging from 25,000 feet down to 200 feet. ImageNav has been developed for over …

SimActive Inc. has announced the use of its Correlator3D™ product with multi-camera drone payloads for improved 3D mapping. The software allows users to import oblique and nadir camera configurations to develop better 3D mapping products.

Multi-camera payloads on drones, such as the Oblique D2M from Quantum-Systems, are enabling drone mappers to texturize the sides of buildings …

Synspective announced that StriX-3, its fourth SAR satellite, has successfully reached its target orbit and spread its wings.
StriX-3 was successfully deployed into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 561 km by Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
StriX-3 is not a newly developed and …

Researchers at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have developed a method that can accurately measure the amount of carbon stored in bogs.

 The new method by the SMART-NTU team uses satellite data and reduces the need for on-site sampling to derive the three-dimensional shapes of …

INSAT-3DS, the meteorological satellite, has initiated Earth imaging operations. The first set of images by the meteorological payloads (6-channel Imager and 19-channel Sounder) was captured on March 7, 2024. 

The satellite was launched on February 17, 2024. After completing orbit-raising operations, the satellite reached the designated geostationary slot for the In Orbit Testing (IOT) on February …

Arabsat, the leading satellite operator in the Arab world, and Aldoria, a pioneering space situational awareness company, have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on enhancing space safety and security.
This MoU is one of the fruitful outcomes of the 1st Space Debris Conference in Saudi Arabia held in Riyadh on February 11-12 and organized by the Saudi …

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) are collaborating to host the 15th edition of the International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).

The course is scheduled to take place in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, from July 15 to 26, 2024.

The summer school invites graduate students, Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral …