GHGSat has successfully launched two new satellites—Pierre (C-12) and Valmay (C-13), pictured above—aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-14 rideshare mission, with the company now reaching a total of 14 launched satellites. The satellites […]
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GHGSat: Satellites reveal methane as an unintended consequence of palm oil production and points toward solutions
Palm oil, the world’s most widely consumed vegetable oil, is an inescapable component of most manufactured consumer products, present in roughly 50% of supermarket packaged products ranging from pizza to […]
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) awarded GHGSat contract for 2 additional smallsats
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has been contracted by GHGSat to develop two additional greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellites – GHGSat–C12 and C13 — the company will develop the new satellites on […]
GHGsat’s commercial CO2 sensor in orbit
The first orbital sensor able to pinpoint carbon dioxide emissions from individual industrial facilities, such as cement or power plants, has been successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]
Spire Global has 11 smallsats launched via the SpaceX Transporter-9 Mission
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) successfully launched 11 satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, including ten satellites for Space Services customers and one for Spire’s […]
NASA selects commercial smallsat data acquisition contractors
NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data in support of the agency’s Earth science research. The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program will acquire Earth Observation (EO) data and […]
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) performance milestone for GHGSat smallsats
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has announced that the SFL-built GHGSat greenhouse gas monitoring smallsats have achieved sustained detection and measurement of methane emissions at double the design capacity of the […]
Spire Global awarded a GHGSat contract for satellite constellation expansion
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has been awarded a space services contract by GHGSat, wherein Spire will build, launch and operate four additional, 16U smallsats, that will carry GHGSat payloads […]
GHGSat receives a task order from NASA
NASA has awarded GHGSat a task order to provide the agency with methane emission data under the agency’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program for evaluation to determine the utility […]
GHGSat to launch 6 high-resolution emission monitoring satellites in 2023
GHGSat will be launching six additional satellites in 2023 — the first three are GHGSat satellites, named Mey-Lin (C6), Gaspard (C7) and Océane (C8) and they will travel into orbit […]