LONDON, Feb. 2 -- The government of the United Kingdom issued the following news:
The MicroCarb satellite was delivered by Thales Alenia Space in the UK (TAS UK) on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, and is on its way to Toulouse, France, where it will await shipment for launch.
The satellite is designed to quantify sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2)-the principal greenhouse gas-on a global scale. Currently, a lack of data makes it difficult to measure how much CO2 is absorbed by and released into the atmosphere, but such information is vital to gain deeper insights into natural carbon fluxes and inform climate models.
Andrew Griffith MP, Minister for Space at the Department for Science, Innovation and Techn...