Ms. Athina Trakas will manage OGS??s European business development activities. (Source Geoinformatics)

Future Developments Could Produce Legal Minefield for Outer Space Activities. Canadian companies?? mission to Finland included warning that space activities are not simply a matter of technology. Space industry must keep an eye on international space law or face millions in unexpected costs. (Source PRweb)

GfK MACON, GfK PRISMA and GfK Regionalforschung have merged to form a new company, GfK GeoMarketing.(Source Spatialnews)

EUMETSAT confirms Tuesday 17 October as the new launch date for MetOp, Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite. MetOp will lift off at 18:28 CEST (16:28 UTC; 22:28 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on a Soyuz/ST launcher.

Nigeria has started work on the design and construction of its second earth observation satellite billed for launch in 2008, Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency Robert Boroffice said here on Thursday. (Source: Xinhua)

CYBERCITY AG is looking forward to welcome you at the INTERGEO 2006 in Munich (10-12 October 2006) at the booth C2.2261 in hall 2.

Intermap Technologies cordially invites you to join us in celebrating an important initiative for the future of Europeís geo-information market. Due to European demand for a uniform and updated digital elevation model, we have recently announced that over the next year and a half you will have access to NEXTMap Europe óthe most accurate elevation

ESA PR 35-2006. The WEU Assembly and the European Interparliamentary Space Conference (EISC) are jointly holding a conference on space, defence and European security in Kourou, French Guiana from 19-22 September 2006, at the invitation of the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency (CNES) and Arianespace. (Source: ESA)

This year??s Summer School in Alpbach, Austria, was one of the most successful ever undertaken, according to both the students and the experts who took part. (Credits ESA)

Orbimage Holdings Inc. which does business under the name GeoEye, announced today that The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC has approved its application to list its securities on The Nasdaq Global Market. Source Spacemart and GeoEye

The prospect of Siberian winters sending a chill down people's spines may not hold true for long given the threat posed to them by global warming according to experts at the University of Leicester.(Source: EurekAlert)

The eoVox Consortium is pleased to announce a one-day workshop dedicated to the common interests of the Earth Observation value adding industry. The workshop will be held under the auspices of ESA/ESRIN on 14 September 2006 in Frascati, Italy. (Info eoVox)

Chinese scientists plan to put into orbit the Haiyang 1-B (Ocean 1-B), an advanced version of the Haiyang 1-A oceanic satellite, by the end of this year to monitor marine environment and disasters.(Credits Spacedaily)

The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has placed a contract for a second year with DMC International Imaging to acquire high-resolution satellite images of the entire 5 million square kilometres of the Amazon rainforest. (Credits Spacemart)

An open-platform framework improves Internet web mapping by combining the richness of traditional desktop applications with the reach of browser-based systems.(Credits SPIE)