MethaneSAT

RTX provides Blue Canyon satellite to help solve a crucial climate challenge

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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LAFAYETTE, Colo., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX's (NYSE: RTX) small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, announced the successful launch and initial contact with the MethaneSAT satellite.

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  • LAFAYETTE, Colo., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX's (NYSE: RTX) small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, announced the successful launch and initial contact with the MethaneSAT satellite.
  • Blue Canyon provided its largest small satellite platform, the Saturn-class bus, integrated with infrared spectrometers that will be used to detect the colorless and odorless gas methane.
  • "Blue Canyon Technologies' proven technical solutions will support this critical mission for the future of our planet and the continued exploration of Earth sciences," said Chris Winslett, general manager for Blue Canyon Technologies.
  • Data from MethaneSAT, the most advanced methane tracking satellite in space, will help policymakers and industry find and fix the problem faster and more effectively.

SATLANTIS AND ENCINO ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ANNOUNCE ONE OF THE LARGEST COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS FOR SATELLITE-BASED METHANE DETECTION AND SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF SECOND METHANE SATELLITE

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Monday, April 8, 2024
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SATLANTIS successfully launches HORACIO, its sixth successful mission and second satellite capable of methane detection.

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  • SATLANTIS successfully launches HORACIO, its sixth successful mission and second satellite capable of methane detection.
  • GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SATLANTIS and a subsidiary of Encino Environmental Services ("Encino"), leaders in methane leak detection & quantification, have furthered their groundbreaking partnership by sealing one of the largest contracts within the SmallSat industry.
  • This alliance aims to monitor infrastructure for high resolution visual applications and methane emission detection through satellite technology.
  • "The SATLANTIS solution for high-resolution visual monitoring combined with methane detection is extremely unique," said Scott McCurdy, Chief Executive Officer of Encino Environmental Services.

MethaneSAT Now in Orbit after SpaceX Launches Groundbreaking Mission to Protect the Climate

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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Just after 4:00pm Pacific Time today MethaneSAT effectively detached from SpaceX Transporter-10 that carried the emissions monitor into space.

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  • Just after 4:00pm Pacific Time today MethaneSAT effectively detached from SpaceX Transporter-10 that carried the emissions monitor into space.
  • The groundbreaking satellite is designed to help protect the Earth’s climate by accelerating reductions of a powerful greenhouse pollutant, focusing first on oil and gas operations, a major source of methane.
  • MethaneSAT will show us the full scope of the opportunity by tracking emissions to their source.”
    Krupp announced MethaneSAT in a 2018 TED Talk as part of the TED Audacious Project .
  • MethaneSAT was made possible entirely by the support of EDF donors and our partnership with the Government of New Zealand .

BAE Systems launches MethaneSAT satellite to provide critical global greenhouse gas emissions data

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Monday, March 4, 2024
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The satellite will provide the public with reliable scientific data about the sources and scale of methane emissions globally, with the ultimate goal of driving reductions in the near future.

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  • The satellite will provide the public with reliable scientific data about the sources and scale of methane emissions globally, with the ultimate goal of driving reductions in the near future.
  • The satellite will monitor emissions from the oil and gas sector, which accounts for about 40% of all human-caused methane emissions, and it will be able to revisit the same sites daily in most instances.
  • "MethaneSAT will make a critical difference in helping us better understand and remedy global greenhouse gas emissions," said Dr. Alberto Conti, vice president and general manager of Civil Space for BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems.
  • "MethaneSAT is a unique instrument with demanding specifications," said Peter Vedder, senior director for mission systems at MethaneSAT.

Ball Aerospace Ships Methane Monitoring Satellite for Launch

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace successfully delivered the MethaneSAT satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California this week, where it is scheduled to launch next month.

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  • BROOMFIELD, Colo., Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace successfully delivered the MethaneSAT satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California this week, where it is scheduled to launch next month.
  • Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas and the second leading driver of climate warming, trailing only carbon dioxide, according to NASA .
  • Once on orbit, the Ball-designed MethaneSAT instrument — composed of two advanced spectrometers — will locate and quantify sources of methane emissions around the world.
  • Ball Aerospace will also provide launch support and commissioning services for the mission.

Carbice Collaborates with RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies to Drive Deep Tech Innovation and Sustainability in Aerospace

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies is a leading provider of turnkey small satellite solutions, including nanosatellites, microsatellites, and ESPA-class satellites.

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  • RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies is a leading provider of turnkey small satellite solutions, including nanosatellites, microsatellites, and ESPA-class satellites.
  • Carbice Space Pad is a proven and reliable thermal solution that combines high-power dissipation performance with ease of use.
  • Carbice Space Pad negates this damage and delay by saving existing material from being discarded and avoiding an increased schedule risk.
  • Baratunde Cola and his team of pioneers have helped enable that speed and mission with Carbice Space Pad and Carbice SIM.

Orchestration Takes Center Stage at KubeCon

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Monday, October 24, 2022
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DETROIT, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As machine learning and data products have grown more powerful and complex, a new generation of software tools has arisen to orchestrate the tasks behind them.

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  • The company announced Union Cloud's availability at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's annual conference.
  • "Flyte has been built from the ground up as cloud-native platform for ML and data orchestration.
  • Orchestration automates a process or workflow across multiple environments, and it coordinates and manages a complex web of systems and services.
  • Union.ai helps organizations deliver reliable, reproducible and cost-effective machine learning and data orchestration built around open-source Flyte.

Ball Aerospace Selected for Two NOAA Weather Instrument Studies

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Thursday, July 28, 2022
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a one-week period, Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to complete two 20-month studies on new instruments to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program: one to measure Atmospheric Composition (ACX) and one to measure Ocean Color (OCX).

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  • In October 2021, Ball was selected for NOAA's GeoXO Phase A Sounder (GXS) study.
  • "As weather events become increasingly unpredictable and extreme, we need to keep building better monitoring and forecasting tools.
  • The three 20-month studies will be based on Ball Operational Weather Instrument Evolution (BOWIE), a series of innovative environmental sensing systems to meet next generation space-based observation needs identified by customers.
  • Ball also designed and is currently building the methane monitoring instrument for MethaneSAT, LLC, a subsidiary of Environmental Defense Fund.

Mercury’s data recorder to help monitor global warming

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
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ANDOVER, Mass., June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a leader in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, announced it was selected by Ball Aerospace to enhance the data recording and storage performance for MethaneSAT, the methane monitoring satellite being developed by a subsidiary of the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund. With MethaneSAT, nations and companies will be able to identify, manage and reduce methane emissions and help slow the rate at which the Earth is warming.

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  • Mercurys data storage technology delivers the high performance and sustainability required to operate successfully in space's harsh, radiation-intense environment.
  • Balls MethaneSAT spectrometer will incorporate Mercurys RH3440 3U VPX high-density solid-state data recorder (SSDR) , allowing the state-of-the-art satellite to gather critical data needed to solve environmental sustainability issues.
  • Moreover, since data will be generated at a rate much higher than can be telemetered, Mercurys store-and-forward features allow delayed data transmission to ground stations while maintaining data integrity until the data can be transmitted.
  • Data from MethaneSAT, supported by Mercurys high-density SSDR, will help do just that.

Headwall Hyperspectral Payloads Quantify Methane Signatures During Flight

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Thursday, January 13, 2022
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Bolton, MA, Jan. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Headwall Photonics, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance spectral imaging solutions, has further demonstrated the ability of commercial hyperspectral technologies to detect methane emissions.

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  • Bolton, MA, Jan. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Headwall Photonics, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance spectral imaging solutions, has further demonstrated the ability of commercial hyperspectral technologies to detect methane emissions.
  • The CfA is a Headwall partner in developing data solutions for this critical application area.
  • Headwall Photonics designed and delivered two high-resolution imaging spectrometers under the MethaneAIR project for CfA.
  • Headwall is a leading designer and manufacturer of complete spectral instrumentation solutions for remote sensing, advanced machine vision, and government/defense markets.