The Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation will be making GHGSat’s C12, C13, C14 and C15 satellites. They will join GHGSat’s constellation that is designed to detect and quantifies industrial gas leaks from space. ABB has now built the payloads for ten of GHGSat’s emissions monitoring satellites.
GHGSat says that, over the past two years, it has has doubled its methane emission measurement capabilities, which has enabled the mitigation of 5.6 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from industrial facilities around the world.
“Our collaboration, which began in 2018, has showcased ABB’s technical expertise and manufacturing capabilities,” said Stéphane Germain, CEO, GHGSat.
“This experience has fortified our belief in ABB’s capacity to support GHGSat’s expansion in building proprietary high-resolution payloads. Such partnerships are the key to achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and ultimately making a concrete impact in the battle against climate change.”
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Abb highlighted that it had been involved in in gas sensing from orbit for over two decades, starting with the development of the Canadian Space Agency SCISAT mission payload. This profiled the concentration of 70 different gas types down to ‘parts per trillion’ from cloud top to outer space.
It also provided hyperspectral technologies to the Japanese GOSAT program. This pioneered the global mapping at regional scale of sources and sinks of greenhouse gases from orbit, said ABB, starting with a first satellite in 2009 and an improved version in 2018.
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