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May 2014 | No Comment

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a $1.35-million contract to Ontario’s Neptec Design Group for work on Canada’s contribution to the Japan…

May 2014 | No Comment

The European Commission is now weighing whether to mandate Galileo adoption not only in European critical infrastructures but also in selected areas including smartphones. The European Union is adopting a system called eCall, which when installed in automobiles automatically …

Apr 2014 | No Comment

Philippines eyes 2016 deadline tocomplete fl ood hazard mapping

Apr 2014 | No Comment

All Professional level Vector products of Hemisphere GNSS, including the V103, V113, VS131, and VS330 now include the ability to utilize the GLONASS Satellite system, along with the GPS Satellite system in the navigation solution. Vector Technology uniquely processes…

Apr 2014 | No Comment

ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C24, successfully launched IRNSS-1B, the second satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) on April 04, 2014. After a fl ight of about 19 minutes, IRNSS-1B Satellite, weighing 1432 kg, was injected to an elliptical orbit of 283 km X 20,630 km, which is very close to the intended orbit.

Apr 2014 | No Comment

MDA’s Information Systems group (MDA) has signed a contract with the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (MRSA) to provide RADARSAT-2 information that will be used to support a number of applications, such as agriculture monitoring, and natural disaster response….

Apr 2014 | No Comment

As part of the actions undertaken by the European Commission to upgrade and maintain the EGNOS system, on 22 March two geostationary transponders – GEO-2 – were successfully launched on board…

Apr 2014 | No Comment

Supergeo Technologies supports Taiwan National Development Council to integrate various geographic data and services collected by different divisions into one single platform, named Spatial Arrangement Supporting System, to provide timely spatial analyses and map data display by GIS.

Mar 2014 | No Comment

Spirent Communications has announced the introduction of Spirent SimSAFE, a software solution that concurrently simulates legitimate GNSS constellations

Mar 2014 | No Comment

Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully propelled the fifth GPS IIF military navigation satellite into orbit on February 20th. It was launched from Cape Canaveral