New batch of RS satellites by China
China successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on June 23, 2022.
The satellites were launched as the second batch of the Yaogan-35 family at 10:22 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered the planned …

Skyline Nav AI, Draper win contract
The project is led by Skyline Nav AI, which has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide GPS-independent localization capability for the ATAK platform. Draper will integrate Skyline’s application into ATAK’s front-end. It is currently on contract with the U.S. Department of Defense …

Drone Festival – Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Drone Festival – Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 on May 27, 2022. He also interacted with Kisan drone pilots, witnessed open-air drone demonstrations and interacted with startups in the drone exhibition centre. Several union ministers, leaders and entrepreneurs of drone industry were among …

Enhanced operations in Australia by Satellogic
Satellogic Inc has announced that it is enhancing its operations in the Australian market to strengthen its regional customer relationships and provide local support for a growing APAC space economy. It currently operates 22 high-resolution satellites and expects to grow its constellation to 34 satellites by Q1 2023. By 2025, …

Chinese-made BeiDou satellite system output value hits new record
The output value of China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) reached a new high of 469 billion yuan ($69 billion) in 2021, up 16.29 percent year on year, according to a white paper recently released.
The white paper, issued by the Global Navigation Satellite System …

Forest Survey of India says forest cover estimate is done with field data tallied with Satellitebased Interpretation
Amid criticism from experts of its methodology to map forest cover in the country, the Forest Survey of India (FSI) has said that the forest cover is estimated from the field inventory data, which corroborate the figures obtained from …

New Airborne LiDAR Series by CHC navigation
CHC Navigation have recently released the AlphaAir 140 and AlphaAir 2400 LiDAR systems. Both are very lightweight and compact airborne laser scanners that are easily installed on various UAV platforms or small survey aircraft and helicopters. They are ideally adapted to high-density point corridor mapping applications, day or …

Pixxel launches first commercial satellite
Pixxel, the Indian Space-tech startup has launched its first commercial satellite, TD- 2. It is a full-fledged commercial satellite that hosts one of the highest resolution hyperspectral commercial cameras to be ever flown. It has been launched with SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket, in order to build a 24×7 health monitor for …

Nearmap and DroneShield join forces
DroneShield Limited has announced an enhanced version of its DroneSentry- C2TMCommand-and-Control software, in partnership with location intelligence firm, Nearmap. It provides an intuitive and feature-rich software platform, providing counter-UAS awareness and reporting capability. It integrates both DroneShield and third-party C-UAS sensors and effectors. Those include multiple AIenabled sensing and tracking …

Advance autonomous vehicle scaled production program
Perrone Robotics, Inc. and Roush Industries has completed the first phase of a successful TONY® – AV, fully autonomous, zero-emissions, electric shuttle integration. The new prototype will be the model for a large-volume production process that will allow Perrone’s TONY AV-Retrofit kit to be easily integrated into existing vehicle …