Hold onto your eco-friendly hats, climate warriors! A high-tech coalition backed by former NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg and NASA just launched its first methane-hunting satellite, Tanager-1, into orbit 🚀. Think of it as a cosmic detective sniffing out invisible climate villains 🌎🔍.
Launched Friday via SpaceX’s Transporter-11 mission, the satellite uses NASA-developed tech to pinpoint methane leaks from oil refineries, landfills, and other hotspots. The data will be publicly available online – a win for transparency and grassroots climate action 💻✨.
Methane packs a brutal punch: it’s 80x more planet-warming than CO2 in its first two decades. The coalition aims to track up to 90% of the world’s large methane emitters daily, targeting 'super-emitters' dumping over 100kg/hour. Talk about a climate glow-up 🌱🚫.
The Carbon Mapper Coalition – including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, Planet Labs, and Arizona State University – plans more satellites to boost coverage. As CEO Riley Duren put it: 'This isn’t just data – it’s a roadmap to slash emissions before 2030.' Game on, climate crisis 🎯🌏.
