Tag Archives: Greenhouse Gas

GHGSat has signed a deal with Spire Global to host at least three methane-tracking payloads. The deal, announced at the World Satellite Business Week, will have GHGSat move away (at least partially) from their previous strategy of owning their own satellites, and shift towards putting payloads onto Spire satellites. Spire will be launching three 16U satellites in 2023 that will each carry one of GHGSat’s payloads.

GHGSat has made another move to further secure its global presence, this time inking a new initiative with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) along with announcing plans for a new UK base of operations.

GHGSat yesterday announced a deal it had signed with Bloomberg that has weekly methane emissions risk predictions data being used in Bloomberg’s Enterprise Access Point platform.

Last July GHGSat was invited to take part in the just concluded World Economic Forum as one of 56 Technology Pioneers. They prepared and made sure to take full advantage of the opportunity.

GHGSat has an opportunity to prove the value of its technology and services to what could be a significant customer after signing a framework agreement with Shell.

Japan’s H-IIA rocket recently launched the Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite-2 (GOSAT-2) with an instrument developed by ABB in Quebec City.

GHGSat is on a roll having raised more funds and looks to pad its lead in the commercial monitoring of global emissions from small satellites.

While originally designed to last only two years, SCISAT is set to celebrate its fifteenth birthday this August. The concept for the mission came about over 20 years ago and some of the data being collected is still unique. There’s no other satellite like it, and plans to replace it are in a bureaucratic holding pattern.

At 15-kilograms, Claire, the size of a microwave oven, zips around the planet at 7-kilometres a second. When flying above the Alberta oil sands, her sensors zero in on a tailing pond and record carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Claire is a demonstration microsatellite operated by GHGSat, the first commercial company to offer greenhouse gas monitoring services using satellite technology.

In this weeks podcast we spoke with Stephane Germain, CEO of GHGSat. GHGSat is an early stage company based in Montreal looking to become the global reference for remote sensing of greenhouse and air quality gas emissions from industrial sites.