April 11, 2019
While government satellites provide a global picture of how global greenhouse gases are circulating, companies that want satellite imagery to reduce their methane emissions have only one choice so far, a Canadian company argues — their burgeoning satellite fleet, which will soon add its second member.
GHGSat announced today that its second satellite, Iris, is scheduled to be launched in August and will carry an instrument which incorporates almost 3 years of lessons learned from flying GHGSat’s demonstration satellite Claire (GHGSat-D).
April 2, 2019
April 2, 2019
By now, most are familiar with the concept of satellites providing everything from phone service to colorful pictures of the Earth; however, looking at gases in the Earth’s atmosphere had, until then, been the specialization of space agencies such as NASA and ESA to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per satellite in the name of climate science.
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GHGSat, for example, is a Canadian company that is using satellites to detect large methane sources from space. The company has one satellite in orbit and plans to launch a second one this summer.
Creating a “fire hose of data” is what satellites do best, according to GHGSat executive director Stéphane Germain, “but frankly, what our customers really want to know is – where are my leaks?”
March 19, 2019
January 25, 2019
GHGSat of Montreal is accelerating plans to build and launch greenhouse gas monitoring satellites in response to strong market demand and the success of its first space-based sensor.
December 11, 2018
November 29, 2018
ABB to manufacture an optical sensor for GHGSat
Contract signature marks ABB’s entry into the non-government space sector with contract manufacturing services.
Going back to his childhood, Stephane Germain, the founder of Montreal-based GHGSat, dreamed of figuring out how to pursue a career that combined space, technology and the profit motive.
November 19th, 2018
November 16, 2018
Montreal, Canada-based GHGSat is building the GHGSat-C1 spacecraft to measure greenhouse gases emissions from industrial facilities around the world. GHGSat-C1 is a follow-on to the GHGSat-D spacecraft that has been operational in orbit since June 2016.
Arianespace has been selected by GHGSat Inc. to launch the GHGSat-C1 satellite on the Vega launch vehicle as part of the Small Spacecraft Mission Service flight in 2019.
November 15, 2018
October 31, 2018
A small company out of Montreal called GHGSat announced last month that it had raised US$10-million that will go toward building two microsatellites, both packed with sensors capable of pinpointing methane leaks and other greenhouse-gas emissions with unprecedented accuracy.
October 17, 2018
October 9, 2018
Montreal-based GHGSat, announced Sept. 24 it has raised $10 million in what it called a “Series A2” funding round. The funding, the company said, will expand its commercialization efforts and fund an additional satellite. The company launched one satellite in 2016 and plans to launch two more next year.
The company, called GHGSat, has raised $10 million in new funds that it will use to build two more satellites, improved versions of its earliest model, called Claire, which has been orbiting since 2016. It has monitored man-made emissions from over 2,000 sites around the world
September 26, 2018
March 9, 2018
Stephane Germain, the CEO, says that Claire’s sensors are miniaturized to fit into a package the size of a microwave oven. The orbiter, a silver rectangular box, has been using Tropomi’s information to home in on industrial facilities, such as oil and gas operations, to see if they have sprung methane leaks.
The GHGSat business model is unique. The owners and operators of power plants, industrial sites, and other emitters of greenhouse gasses contract the company to periodically monitor their facilities from space. The primary sensor on the Claire microsatellite is a miniaturized hyperspectral shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging spectrometer that targets the client facility’s location and measures its emission of specific gasses.
January 4, 2018
July 6, 2017
“It’s about the size of a microwave and it circles the Earth, goes over that oil sands region about once every two weeks,” Wickum said. The satellite enabled more accurate and frequent measurements, he went on to say, giving companies the ability to see whether the technologies they’re using for greenhouse gas reduction are working effectively.
The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched two Canadian satellites last night from its Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, in southeastern India, said the Canadian Space Agency Wednesday.
The launch vehicle delivered into the orbit Canada’s Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite (M3MSat) along with a microsatellite nicknamed ‘Claire.’
June 22, 2016
June 17, 2016
The satellite, built by the Montreal-based GHGSat, is funded by a group including major oil sands producers and the Canadian government and will blast off into space from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India on June 21. The hope is that, once in place 318 miles above Earth, the satellite will produce measurements with a resolution 400 times finer than current satellites produce.
The satellite, which has been in development for two years, is being pitched as a relatively inexpensive way for oil and gas companies and other energy producers to measure exactly how much carbon dioxide and methane they put into the atmosphere each year. The two gases are chief drivers of climate change.
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