Technologically-advanced satellite recently launched to help provide more accurate and consistent findings on methane emissions

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00:00In the news overseas, though nowhere near the atmospheric abundance like carbon dioxide,

00:05methane is an odorless gas that is highly flammable and gets trapped in the atmosphere

00:10if released without burning.

00:12Usually found in cattle excretions, methane rises up to the atmosphere

00:16and stays there for about 10 years before dematerializing or vanishing.

00:20A technologically advanced satellite that's been recently launched

00:23is helping to provide more accurate and consistent findings on methane emissions,

00:27as VOA's Julie Taubo reports.

00:31And liftoff, 29.

00:34This past March, private spaceflight company SpaceX carried into space a satellite

00:39that's using advanced technology to measure methane emissions around the world.

00:44Methane sat, separation confirmed.

00:47Manufactured by Colorado-based Blue Canyon Technologies and roughly the size of a washing machine,

00:53methane sat will circle every part of the Earth

00:55to measure how much of the planet-warming gas has been emitted into our atmosphere

00:59and how those emissions vary.

01:01Methane sat would be one of the first satellites that's actually not only able to measure the source of emission,

01:07but to actually monitor it over time so they can see if it's getting better, if it's getting worse.

01:12Methane emitted through human activity accounts for about 30 percent of the warming

01:16the planet is currently experiencing.

01:18And the gas is more than 28 times as potent as carbon dioxide

01:22at trapping heat in our atmosphere.

01:25Methane sat, developed by the Environmental Defense Fund

01:28in collaboration with several partners,

01:30will initially focus on fossil fuel production,

01:33which is the second largest human-made contributor to methane emissions after agriculture.

01:38We've been leading efforts to understand methane emissions

01:41from the oil and gas industry for well over 10 years now.

01:45And several years ago, we realized that we couldn't collect enough data

01:50to really be able to capture those emissions on an ongoing basis.

01:55The data will help scientists assess where reductions need to be made and by whom.

02:00The key here is going to empirical data, high-quality data,

02:04data that we can trust and that we can then utilize to really understand the problem.

02:09Methane sat will yield what the team says will be the most comprehensive data set

02:13ever produced for a single industry.

02:16In the meantime, preliminary data from the satellite will be accessible to the public

02:20free of charge within the next six months.

02:23Julie Tabo, VOA News.

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