Indigenous satellite maker GalaxEye announced a seed-stage funding of $3.5 million led by deep-tech venture capital firm Speciale Invest.
The Bengaluru-based company will focus on hiring new employees and expediting the launch of a new multi-sensor earth observation satellite, according to the Economic Times. This will help commercialise with GalaxEye Customers in the US, Europe, and …

IDS GeoRadar, part of Hexagon, today announced it is extending the IQMaps software application to a wider range of GPR systems. IQMaps is IDS GeoRadar’s post-processing software application for advanced ground penetrating radar (GPR) data analysis, enabling fast interfacing between the user and GPR data.
IQMaps is now available for:

IDS GeoRadar Opera Duo: a compact, easy-to-transport and easy-to-deploy …

Intermap Technologies, a global leader in 3D geospatial data and intelligence solutions, today announced a new contract with a leading Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) provider to integrate Intermap’s certified aviation terrain data to continue the development of an urban air mobility platform.
Intermap’s NEXTView data enables electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to navigate in …

Planet Labs PBC a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced it is making geospatial data available through Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning (ML) service from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now, Planet data can be directly embedded into Amazon SageMaker, allowing data scientists and ML engineers to acquire and analyze global, …

Precisely has announced the regional expansion of its unique location identifier, the PreciselyID, for its World Points of Interest (POI) data offering. Points of interest located in the US, Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Sweden, and Singapore now benefit from accurate, standardized, and meaningful data – allowing businesses to streamline location-based …

Maxar Technologies confirmed that Galaxy 35 and Galaxy 36, built for Intelsat, are performing as expected after launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Arianespace’s launch base in French Guiana.
These two geostationary (GEO) satellites will enable Intelsat, operator of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial network and leading provider of inflight connectivity, to transfer …

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s premier communications solutions provider and Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering solutions, today announced a strategic partnership under which they have deployed ’5G for Enterprise’ solution at Mahindra’s Chakan manufacturing facility, making it India’s first 5G enabled Auto manufacturing unit.

The ‘5G for Business’ solution has significantly …

Dubai Municipality has launched the geospatial business and innovation incubator, ‘GeoHub’ within the framework of joint cooperation by its Geographical Information System (GIS) Centre with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Dubai SME) and the Hamdan Innovation Incubator.
The incubator is one of the first in the region based on two …

WHILL,Inc. has announced the first permanent installation in North America of its autonomous mobility service at Winnipeg Richardson International Airport.
An estimated one in three travelers will require some form of assistance by the year 2038. This makes it difficult for airports to meet the additional demands that come with accommodating their needs.
The WHILL autonomous mobility …

Digital Envoy, a pioneer of IP intelligence and high-quality consent-based location data, is partnering with the Purdue University School of Management for its data for good program, Data for Impact, on research examining how retail crime impacts consumer demand and how accessibility to public transportation can be improved.
Digital Envoy introduced the concept of privacy-sensitive IP-based …