With the capability of seeing nearly live footage of the Earth from space, the UrtheCast platform has the potential to change the way educators teach.
For one thing, it will bring a tactile reality to what has been traditionally confined to textbooks. Classrooms using UrtheCast would be able to watch in near real time locations they had previously only been able to read about. Read more.
Location, location, location. It doesn’t just refer to real estate anymore: it’s also central to new kinds of social network apps and sites.
Foursquare, Facebook, and Twitter are the most well-known players in the location-based, geotagging social networking sphere, but there are also a number of startups with unique angles. Read more.
Today is a proud day for UrtheCast. Today we get to announce that we have won the T-Systems Cloud Computing Challenge as part of the European-based Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Masters competition. Read more.
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UrtheCast wins the T-Systems Cloud Computing Challenge, as part of the first annual GMES Masters Competition.
Munich, Germany – October 20, 2011 – UrtheCast is proud to announce that they are the winners of the T-Systems Cloud Computing Challenge as part of the first annual GMES-Masters competition. Read more.
Once upon a time a long, long time ago – well, about 50 years ago – launching rockets and satellites into space was something only governments had the money and manpower to achieve.
Spaceflight was simply too expensive, too time-consuming, and too complicated for private companies to get involved in. And manned commercial spaceflights? Forget it.
But the world has changed a lot in 50 years. Read more.
Space travel and exploration have been a large part of global culture for the past sixty years. In those sixty years, we’ve made major advancements in technology – allowing us easier access to space. Space has always been expensive, but there is a recent global shift toward doing things lean, quickly, and efficiently. Read more.