Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) Awarded Contract by GHGSat to Develop Two Additional Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Microsatellites

SFL will develop the new satellites on its low-cost, high-performance 15-kg NEMO bus, the same used to build the first nine GHGSat spacecraft. SFL announced the contract win at the 2024 Small Satellite Conference being held August 3-8 in Logan, Utah. SFL is exhibiting in booth 245.

GHGSat is the world leader in detecting and measuring facility-level greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources on the Earth’s surface from space. Decision-makers across government and industries including oil and gas, power generation, mining, waste management, and agriculture rely on GHGSat emissions data to drive emissions reduction and accelerate the decarbonization of the planet. In 2023 alone, its satellite constellation made more than three million measurements across 85 countries, enabling the mitigation of more than six million metric tonnes of CO2e of methane emissions, equivalent to removing more than 1.4 million cars from the road for a year.

All nine GHGSat spacecraft developed by SFL are in excellent operational health. SFL developed the GHGSat-D (Claire) demonstration satellite for its launch in 2016 and was then selected to build the commercial GHGSat-C1 through C8 spacecraft launched since 2020. GHGSat-D has surpassed its design operational life by three years, and the eight commercial microsatellites achieved sustained detection and measurement of methane emissions on the ground at double their design capacities.