This year’s edition of the Copernicus Masters — Europe’s innovation competition for Earth observation (EO) — offers a prize pool of more than €1.5 million. In addition, the European Space Agency (ESA) is opening the competition to upstream entries with its Sentinel Small Sat (S^3) Challenge. The European Commission (EC) is hosting a total of six challenges thatenrich the overall Copernicus Masters... read more
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to release the first set of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) facility maps on April 27. The maps will depict areas and altitudes near airports where UAS may operate safely. The maps are designed to help drone operators improve the quality of their Part 107 airspace authorization requests, which will help the FAA process these... read more
A co-located event focused on unmanned aircraft will take place during AUVSI Xponential 2017, which will be held May 8-11 in Dallas. AUVSI, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, is joining with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) to present the AIAA/AUVSI Third Workshop on Civilian Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The workshop is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. to 5:30... read more
Tersus GNSS Inc., a GNSS real-time kinematic (RTK) manufacturing company, has launched its new GNSS RTK board, the Precis-BX306. The launch of Precis-BX306 aims at facilitating the applications that need centimeter positioning accuracy and dynamic operation mode, enforcing effective observation data logging and management, and popularizing the adoption of high precision in aerial mapping and drone-related integration. Compared with previous Precis... read more
The second satellite in the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) is scheduled for launch in June. QZSS will be a satellite augmentation system for GPS in the region of Japan. The first Michibiki satellite was launched Sept. 11, 2010. Michibiki 2 will be launched aboard H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 34 from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., according to the Japan Aerospace... read more
On April 6, Russia commissioned a new GLONASS ground station in Managua, Nicaragua — its first in Central America. The station was created under a Jan. 26, 2012, agreement between the two countries to cooperate in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes. GLONASS consists of 24 satellites orbiting at a medium height of 19140 km in three planes with inclination of... read more
Sierra Wireless is leveraging a broad suite of 3G/4G connectivity solutions from Skyworks Solutions to power its AirPrime HL Series of wireless modules targeting machine-to-machine (M2M) and device-to-cloud applications, according to Skyworks. In total, Sierra Wireless is making use of 17 Skyworks devices spanning high-performance multimode, multiband power amplifiers, transmit/receive front-end modules, RF switches and DC-DC converters. With the integration of Skyworks’ devices,... read more
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