Gyana Ltd. CEO and founder Joyeeta Das has visions of crunching imagery regularly gathered by new constellations of small satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles with data gathered from social media as real-estate investment and urban-planning tools.
“There will be more spending under these circumstances,” French president Francois Hollande told a rare joint session of the French parliament in Versailles Nov. 16, three days after the Paris terror attacks.
PARIS—France has begun delivering on a promise to increase air strikes on militant targets in Syria, and plans to deploy the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Gulf next month, tripling its air strike capability in the region.
While the overall price tag for the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class replacement submarine fleet raises some eyebrows, it is the cost of each vessel that will go a long way.
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering as the first awardee under its program to mature rocket system propulsion technology in pursuit of a domestic alternative to the Russian RD-180 used for the Atlas V launch vehicle.
Studies over Greenland reveal the warming atmosphere and ocean around it are hastening the rate at which the massive glaciers covering the landmass are melting.
Cameras aboard the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft are tracking a slow but impressive transition from fall to winter at the south pole of the moon Titan.
Airbus Helicopters has begun flight tests of its kerosene-fueled High Compression Engine H120 helicopter developed under the European Clean Skies initiative.
Research and development organization Mitre has launched a prize challenge to help solve the problem of countering unauthorized small unmanned aircraft.
The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine SSN 757 USS Alexandria arrived in its new homeport at Naval Base Point Loma in California from the East Coast after undergoing its regularly scheduled engineered overhaul at what the U.S. Navy called record speed.
Representatives to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris beginning Nov. 30 will have access to the first year of data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory -2.
As the U.S. Defense Department’s Third Offset strategy picks up steam, defense analysts are citing a need to fix Pentagon purchasing to make the concept work.
GJ 1132b, the closest Earth-sized exoplanet discovery yet, may prove greatly beneficial in the difficult search for evidence of life beyond the solar system.
