GHGSat to launch emissions monitoring satellite

Montreal's GHGSat has successfully completed testing of its demonstration global emissions monitoring satellite that offers the ability to measure greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities anywhere in the world. With a launch scheduled for April/16 from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the start-up firm has also launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to support demonstrations of the satellite's capabilities around the world. Satellite development took two years with GHGSat receiving assistance from Xiphos Technologies, Montreal, the Space Flight Laboratory at the Univ of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies, MPB Communications and the Boeing Company. Testing of the demonstration satellite included vibration and vacuum testing at the component, subsystem and system levels....