The analysis performed in this report is solely his work and own opinion. State Program: U.S.A (G); EU (E); China (C) “Only MEO- SECM satellites”; Russia (R); Japan (J); India (I)

Narayan Dhital

Actively involved to support international collaboration in GNSSrelated activities. He has regularly supported and contributed to different workshops of the International Committee on GNSS (ICG), and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). As a professional employee, the author is working as GNSS expert at the Galileo Control …

Urban policies, resettlement and low-cost housing are the powerful tools of the poverty reduction which transform the lives of the poor

A. K. Jain

Worked as Commissioner (Planning), Delhi Development Authority. He joined DDA in 1976 in the midst of massive resettlement of slums. This gave him first hand knowledge about the the programme and testing the dictum of John Turner at the UN Habitat Conference, Vancouver (1976) that the slums are not a problem but a solution.

During 1975-77, a massive program of slum resettlement, covering 7 lakh people living in …

The Pentagon’s first batch of advanced GPS satellites, part of the GPS IIIF program, is experiencing significant delays. The initial batch is now projected to be eight to eleven months behind schedule, with the U.S. Space Force citing manufacturing issues from contractor Lockheed Martin, particularly with complex components critical to the satellites’ functionality. The first satellite, originally slated for launch in April 2026, is now expected to be delivered by November 2026.
The GPS IIIF program, a $9.2 billion initiative, aims to deploy up to 22 next-generation satellites. The first ten …

NV5 Global, Inc, a provider of technology, certification, and consulting solutions, has announced that it has been awarded $14 million in recent contracts to support the global development of data center infrastructure. Under the scope of these awards, NV5 will support the scalability and efficiency of new construction and the retrofitting of existing data centers in response to the heightened electrical and cooling pressures of AI-driven workloads.

NV5 also announced that it has surpassed a gigawatt (GW) in data center mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) design and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) …

Sceye, a leading U.S. aerospace company specializing in High-Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS), announced a cooperating research and development agreement with United States Geological Survey (USGS) and a Space Act agreement with NASA. The purpose of these agreements is to enhance climate and environmental imaging, monitoring, and data collection from the stratosphere. This partnership builds on Sceye’s successful 2024 flight program, which concluded with a milestone launch on October 24, 2024, demonstrating the platform’s readiness for commercialization and long-duration missions in 2025.

This collaboration positions Sceye’s HAPS technology as a critical partner in providing precise …