MethaneSAT will locate and quantify methane emissions almost anywhere on the globe, generating a continuous stream of public data to help companies and regulators reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas faster — and give stakeholders new power to see and compare the results.

It is designed to do what no single satellite flying today can, providing higher sensitivity and better spatial resolution than global mapping instruments combined with a wider field of view than point-source detection systems, enabling MethaneSAT to detect and quantify almost all human-caused methane emissions across large regions while also measuring individual sites.