SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 26, 2014—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today registration is officially open for its International User Conference—Trimble Dimensions—being held November 3-5, 2014 at the Mirage and the Treasure Island Hotels in Las Vegas. The...
Airbus Defence and Space Supplies KSAT with Norway's First TerraSAR-X Direct Receiving Station
Toulouse, France, June 26, 2014—Airbus Defence and Space and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have signed a multi-million-euro agreement for the delivery and installation of a Direct Receiving Station (DRS) for TerraSAR-X and its twin satellite TanDEM-X in...
Airbus Defense and Space Unveils Multisatellite Direct Receiving Station for GeoNorth
Toulouse, France, June 25, 2014—Airbus Defense and Space and its client GeoNorth have inaugurated the first commercially available multi-satellite Direct Receiving Station (DRS) in the world, set to give a host of new markets quick access to both high-resolution and...
Dauria Aerospace Launches Two Perseus-M Maritime Surveillance Satellites
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., June 24, 2014—Dauria Aerospace, a multinational aerospace company providing global satellite-based remote sensing information services, has successfully delivered two Perseus-M spacecraft into low earth orbit. These satellites will be combined...
Eagle Mapping Expands into Large-Area Projects with Riegl LMS-Q1560 Airborne LiDAR
VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA, June 24, 2014—Eagle Mapping Ltd., a pioneer in digital airborne mapping, has become the first commercial firm in North America to take delivery of the new Riegl LMS-Q1560 airborne laser scanner system. Designed to capture ultra-wide swaths...
RIEGL Announces New Distribution Partners for the MENA Region
Horn, Austria, June 26, 2014—RIEGL is happy to announce the expansion of its global sales network with two new distribution partners responsible for the Middle East and North Africa. These new partners, Mena 3D and Mapping Solutions, both with local offices in...
Rockwell Collins and NASA Complete Successful UAS Communications Test
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 2, 2014—With one crew squeezed into a computer-filled bus and another inside an airborne Lockheed S-3 Viking airplane, experts from Rockwell Collins and NASA teamed up to better determine the future of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) during...
SPUTNIX Launches First Russian Private Earth Remote Sensing Satellite
MOSCOW, June 20, 2014—ISC Kosmotras successfully launched a cluster of small spacecraft by the RS-20 rocket (Dnepr) on 20 June 2014. The first Russian private Earth remote sensing satellite of SPUTNIX Company, named TabletSat-Aurora also was set into its target...
A Blooming Current Warms Colder Water
Flowing south along Australia's western shore, the Leeuwin Current is an oddity. Unlike most currents that flow along the western shores of continents, it flows toward the pole (away from the equator), carrying warm tropical water into what would otherwise be a cold ocean.
SPOT 7 Satellite Launched Successfully
Like SPOT 6”its twin”SPOT 7 covers wide areas in record time. Both satellites in orbit boosts acquisition capacity to 6 million square kilometers per day, an area 10 times the size of France.
