GHGSat is a leader in high-resolution remote sensing of greenhouse gas emissions from space, pioneering the technology to monitor these emissions at the facility level. As a commercial constellation, GHGSat's satellites offer data and intelligence to businesses, governments, and investors to optimize performance and meet environmental standards. GHGSat partners with organizations like the UK Space Agency and utilizes technology developed by the University of Toronto's Space Flight Laboratory, providing methane emission data to entities such as UNEP's IMEO and various oil and gas companies.
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GHGSat planned to release the Pulse map in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the 26th Conference of Parties, which was originally scheduled to begin 2020-11-09 in Glasgow, Scotland.
GHGSat unveiled a free map called Pulse on 2020-10-21 showing average weekly methane concentrations around the world at approximately two kilometers per pixel resolution.
GHGSat created the first generation of Pulse with data from its first satellite Claire and plans to include Iris data in future versions.
GHGSat detects and measures global greenhouse gas emissions with two satellites: Claire, launched in 2016, and Iris, launched in September.
GHGSat plans to operate 10 satellites by 2022.
GHGSat needs 10 satellites to provide customers with regular measurements for all their facilities in areas of production.
GHGSat plans to launch another methane satellite named Hugo in December on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
ABB Measurement & Analytics Canada built sensors for government satellites for decades prior to working with GHGSat as its first commercial space customer.
GHGSat signed an agreement on 2020-10-06 with ABB Measurement & Analytics Canada to manufacture sensors for three methane-monitoring satellites.
GHGSat launched the Iris satellite on 2020-09-02 on an Arianespace Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou.
GHGSat plans to launch nine additional satellites by the end of 2022.
GHGSat operates satellites able to detect greenhouse gases in high resolution and has demonstrated that technology in space since 2016.
GHGSat plans to have a constellation of 10 spacecraft in orbit by the end of 2022.
Iris (GHGSat-C1), GHGSat’s second satellite, launched on 2 September 2020.
GHGSat signed an agreement with ABB to deliver the payloads for GHGSat’s next three methane-detecting satellites.
GHGSat has raised more than US$55,000,000 in total since it was founded.
GHGSat completed the first tranche of its Series B funding, raising US$30,000,000.
GHGSat, a Montreal-based firm monitoring greenhouse gases via satellite, was unable to launch its second satellite as planned on 2020-03-23 on an Arianespace Vega rocket.
GHGSat launched its first greenhouse gas monitoring satellite in 2016.
GHGSat launched its first satellite in June 2016.