With a focus on oceanography and the monitoring of air pollution, the 3.4 ton South Korean Chollian-2B satellite is looking at a launch date of February 18 from the Guiana...

Fugro Seastar AS has announced SeaSTAR G2. This new high performance navigation service combines the navigation satellites of both the American GPS constellation and the Russian GLONASS constellation, to produce...

Iridium Satellite LLC has unveiled the Iridium 9555 which offers a significantly reduced size, a more hand-friendly form factor, an intuitive user interface, and new features such as an internally...

A U.S. Air Force Modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin, was launched successfully on 20th December from Cape Canaveral Air Force...

Veripos has introduced an enhancement to its services by increasing transmission power from Inmarsat's Indian Ocean Region satellite, resulting in fully redundant high-power delivery of GNSS augmentation data throughout its...

Iridium Satellite LLC announces that it has 175,000 subscribers worldwide as of 31rst December 2006. The new figure represents a 23.2 percent increase over last year’s subscriber total of 142,000....

EOMAP has been awarded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to further develop its physics-based method of mapping the depth of the sea from satellite observations. Satellite-Derived Bathymetry (SDB) uses data...

Iridium Satellite LLC has launched a new satellite fax service that will permit subscribers to send and receive faxes from any location in the world directly to and from any...

Ocean Voyages Institute, a non-profit organization, has successfully removed more than 40 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the area known as the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone,...

Airbus has completed Sentinel-6B, the second ocean monitoring satellite of the European Copernicus programme, and is now testing it extensively over the next six months in preparation for its use...