Scientists will publish the data from MethaneSAT in the hopes it will pressurise emitters of potent greenhouse gas methane to clean up.
A new satellite to monitor oil and gas projects leaking greenhouse gases has been successfully launched by an NGO and Elon Musk's SpaceX space company. MethaneSAT will measure methane emissions from wide areas that other satellites can't detect and 'identify large emitters in places they aren't looking', said US non-profit Environmental Defense Fund , which developed the satellite with the New Zealand Space Agency.
Last year, Sky News revealed 18 oil and gas platforms in the North Sea were losing enough methane to power a city the size of Aberdeen. The technology already exists to cut 75% of methane emissions from oil and gas, 'highlighting a lack of industry action on an issue that is often very cheap to address', according to the International Energy Agency.
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