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The eight commercial GHGSat satellites GHGSat-C1 through GHGSat-C8 launched individually and in clusters since 2020 and are in excellent health.
Spire’s four additional 16U satellites for GHGSat build upon an initial agreement for three 16U satellites that will launch by the end of 2023.
Spire Global, Inc. was awarded a space services contract by GHGSat to build, launch, and operate four additional 16U small satellites that will carry GHGSat payloads to monitor greenhouse gas emissions.
Spire’s contract with GHGSat builds on an initial agreement for three 16U satellites that are scheduled to launch by the end of 2023.
The four 16U satellites are identical to three 16U satellites GHGSat ordered from Spire the previous year for a launch in late 2023.
Spire Global is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia and is building satellites for GHGSat at manufacturing facilities in Scotland, United Kingdom.
GHGSat ordered four additional 16U satellites from Spire Global for a launch no earlier than 2024.
GHGSat’s latest three satellites launched in April on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 Falcon 9 rideshare mission and are performing well.
Other SFL microspace satellites developed and launched in 2023 include three greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellites for GHGSat Inc.
NASA awarded GHGSat a task order under the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program to provide the agency with methane emission data for evaluation to determine the utility of GHGSat’s data for advancing NASA’s Earth science and applications goals.
Research projects supported by GHGSat data under the CSDA task order will include studies of anthropogenic and naturogenic methane emissions over land and water at sites in the United States and around the world.
SFL built GHGSat-1, GHGSat-2, GHGSat-3, GHGSat-4, and GHGSat-5 over the six years following 2016.
SFL developed the pathfinding GHGSat-D ("Claire") atmospheric monitoring microsatellite for GHGSat Inc. in 2016.
GHGSat-C6, GHGSat-C7, and GHGSat-C8 are three greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellites built by SFL on its 15-kg NEMO platform for GHGSat Inc. of Montreal, Canada.
Space Flight Laboratory built and launched the pathfinding GHGSat-D ('Claire') atmospheric monitoring microsatellite for GHGSat Inc. in 2016.
Space Flight Laboratory developed and launched GHGSat-1, GHGSat-2, GHGSat-3, GHGSat-4, and GHGSat-5 over the six years following GHGSat-D.
Three next-generation greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellites, GHGSat-C6, GHGSat-C7, and GHGSat-C8, were built by Space Flight Laboratory on its 15-kg NEMO platform for GHGSat Inc. of Montreal, Canada.
With 12 spacecraft in orbit by the end of 2023, GHGSat will double its capacity to make more than 1.5 million facility measurements in 2023.
Claire, GHGSat’s demonstrator satellite, was launched in 2016.
GHGSat’s demonstrator satellite Claire was launched in 2016.