Planet has announced that it has expanded its contract with the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program to provide access to PlanetScope imagery for scientific research use for all US Federal Civilian researchers and National Science Foundation funded researchers, including their contractors and grantees — roughly 280,000 eligible users.

This expands access on the existing contract that currently supports …

Japan’s largest drone manufacturer, Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory (ACSL), is making a move into the Indian market through a partnership with Delhi-based Arc Ventures to establish a joint venture called ACSL India, at an initial investment of $3.5 million.
ACSL develops industrial drones that are used in logistics, infrastructure inspection, disasters and other various fields. It has also developed its own …

A 5 Day Faculty Development Program (FDP)
ATAL Academy – GNSS/ NavIC and Applications starting 21 Sep’2021being organized by University of Burdwan.
Global Navigation satellite system (GNSS) has become popular for myriads of applications due to the advantages of reliability, precision, availability and cost- effectiveness. Using satellite signals, GNSS provides accurate position, timing and velocity (PVT) information. …

Esri has announced that in collaboration with federal agencies, it is opening up access to dozens of high-priority, high-demand national data layers, referred to by government users as National Geospatial Data Assets (NGDA). This development is critical for decision-making in areas of national concern like infrastructure development and disaster response.

The information being made available includes cartographic boundary …

China’s leading e-commerce platform for services, has introduced a new, self-developed drone model and announced plans for a drone logistics network pilot program in Shanghai. The announcement was made at the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, where Meituan demonstrated how drones and delivery riders could conceivably work together to deliver orders.
In a partnership with …

Airspace Link, Inc., announced it will oversee the testing of safe integration of drones in the City of Ontario in California beginning this July. An event entitled “Tech on Tap” was held on July 9 to celebrate the grand opening of a new “connected and convenient community” named New Haven, which is a new-construction and …

The Federal Aviation Administration of the US said it has got a new tool — Space Data Integrator — which will help them track rocket launches and Space vehicles returning to Earth in a better way.

The toll will replace a system in which much of the work of giving telemetry data about Space vehicles to air traffic …

1Spatial, the global geospatial software and solutions leader, are increasing the capability of their patented rules engine, 1Integrate, with added support for 3D data.
1Integrate 3.0 now supports full 3D data in its data stores, rules and actions. The updated data visualizer allows you to explore your data efficiently and freely in 3D, and validation and transformation capabilities process 3D data …

Israeli unmanned aerial systems operator Aerodrome Group Ltd.  announced that it has acquired FlyTech, which specializes in providing advanced aviation services and solutions in the commercial market. FlyTech operates in the commercial field and Aerodrome plans concentrating all its commercial activities in the acquired company. The acquisition will help Aerodrome enter the US commercial market.

Aerodrome will acquire …

VHB, an engineering, design and technology firm, has announced that the development of their latest transportation technology-enabled tool, DataTripper, will provide transit agencies with a user-friendly web application for analyzing and utilizing data. The need stems from the desire to create a faster, easier way to interpret transportation data that has traditionally been cumbersome and fragmented, …