Articles in the News Update Category

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Oct 2024 | No Comment

The new EGNOS SoL Service for Aviation SDD introduces several updates designed to improve the precision, reliability, and safety of satellite navigation services in aviation.

One of the standout features in SDD v3.6 is the introduction of updated commitment maps. These maps visually represent the regions where EGNOS commits to delivering a specific level of service performance. The new maps bring significant …

Oct 2024 | No Comment

The two new Galileo satellites launched in April have entered service, completing the second of three constellation planes. With every addition to the constellation, the precision, availability and robustness of the Galileo signal is improved. The next launch is planned in the coming weeks and the remaining six Galileo First Generation satellites will join the …

Oct 2024 | No Comment

The Commonwealth Secretariat and the Government of Azerbaijan have signed a landmark joint declaration in Tonga aimed at enhancing climate action in Small Developing Island States (SIDS) and other vulnerable member countries. 

This historic agreement underscores both parties’ commitment to addressing the urgent challenges posed by climate change, particularly in regions most susceptible to its effects.
As …

Oct 2024 | No Comment

Mapbox, a global leader in location technology, introduced new capabilities for its Mapbox Tiling Service (MTS) to efficiently process, style, and serve raster data from weather visualizations to custom satellite and aerial imagery.

The numerical information in NetCDF and GRIB raster data now persists from processing to rendering and can be styled for dynamic colourization creating visually …

Sep 2024 | No Comment

Following the Town Hall session held on 9 September 2024 by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability, Land Surveyors Board (LJT) and Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia (JUPEM), we are compelled to express our deep concerns regarding the amendment to the Licensed Land Surveyors Act 1958 (Akta Jurukur Tanah Berlesen 1958) and …

Sep 2024 | No Comment

EISCAT Scientific Association has been providing access to high-latitude incoherent radar scattering facilities and other instrumentation for scientific, non-military purposes since the 1980ies.

This strategic partnership gives Neuraspace, a European-born global leader in space traffic management (STM), access to radar observation time for monitoring space objects. It will also provide advanced ionospheric and atmospheric measurement data, …

Sep 2024 | No Comment

Chile and Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Space Activities for Peaceful Purposes, to promote joint programs and projects in space matters within the framework of the State during the visit of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as reported by the Chilean government through its Presidential Press page.

The agreement was signed …

Sep 2024 | No Comment

The Army released a Request for White Papers (RfWP) to develop new CMFF prototypes, enabling cost and space savings and quicker technology insertion into its combat vehicles and platforms.
CMFF—short for C5ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) CMOSS Mounted Form Factor—is the Army’s effort to more easily and rapidly equip ground vehicles and aviation platforms …

Sep 2024 | No Comment

NextNav, a leader in next generation positioning, navigation, timing (PNT) and 3D geolocation, announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a public notice seeking comment on its innovative spectrum solution in the Lower 900 MHz band (902-928 MHz band).
On April 16, NextNav filed a rulemaking petition asking the FCC to open this proceeding to reconfigure …

Sep 2024 | No Comment

CACI International Inc has announced that it was awarded a ten-year expertise contract valued at up to $450 million to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC), an operational center of U.S. Space Forces – Space and the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) center of excellence for navigation warfare (NAVWAR). CACI will provide 24/7 operations support, …