EARTH OBSERVATION China plans to launch CO2 monitoring satellite in 2016

China is reported to be planning to launch the global carbon dioxide observatory satellite into space in 2016. Recently, all satellite payloads have finished the samples development. CO2-observatory satellite aims to establish ground-based data processing and verification system, make monitoring precision be better than 4ppm, and become feasible to monitoring carbon dioxide of world, China and other major regions. More

(Source: Space Daily - Oct 26)