AIRMO and EnduroSat Partner to Close the Global Methane Monitoring Gap from Space
Berlin / Sofia, February 2026 — AIRMO, the Germany and Luxembourg-based provider of high-precision greenhouse gas monitoring services, today announced a strategic partnership with EnduroSat, a leading satellite manufacturer and constellation-as-a-service provider, aimed at greatly expanding and improving the accuracy of independent methane monitoring from space. The program will provide actionable methane data designed to help operators, regulators, and financial stakeholders pinpoint emissions, verify remediation, and support compliance with consistent, independently verifiable data.
For customers, the partnership creates a rapidly scalable path to independent methane monitoring. AIRMO delivers emissions intelligence as a service, while the underlying space infrastructure is deployed and operated efficiently by EnduroSat.
An Unresolved Business Critical Challenge
Methane is responsible for roughly 30% of current global warming — and unlike CO₂, it dissipates within decades, meaning cutting methane emissions today delivers near-immediate climate impact. Industry estimates put the value of undetected methane leaks at over $100 billion] in lost revenue annually. Yet the world still lacks a reliable, independent, high-accuracy system to measure where methane comes from, and in what quantities. Self-reported data from oil & gas operators, coal mines, and agricultural facilities is inconsistent, unverified, and increasingly insufficient under tightening regulation — including the EU Methane Regulation, which came into force in 2024.
Existing monitoring systems fall short: ground-based sensors offer limited coverage, and current satellite solutions lack the sensitivity and reliability needed to detect and quantify emissions at the facility level with the accuracy regulators and investors now demand.
Global, High-precision Emissions Intelligence
AIRMO has been tackling this problem from the ground up — operating its proprietary methane sensors on aircrafts and drones across Europe and the Middle East, building the operational expertise and ground-truth data that will underpin its space-based offering.
The satellite will carry AIRMO’s SWIR pushbroom spectrometer — capable of detecting methane columns with a ground sampling resolution of ~50m across-track at 500km altitude — alongside its micro-LiDAR system, designed to significantly enhance detection accuracy and sensitivity beyond what spectrometers alone can achieve. Together, they form a sensing package unlike anything currently in orbit.
The first concrete step under the partnership is a dedicated methane monitoring ESPA-class satellite launching in early 2027 with commercial data products available to oil & gas operators, regulators, financial institutions, and NGOs from first light. Initial focus markets include European gas infrastructure, Central Asia, and the Middle East — regions with some of the world’s highest and least-monitored methane emissions. This mission serves as the foundation for a 12+ satellite constellation designed to deliver global methane intelligence at scale with unmatched temporal resolution.
EnduroSat-powered Space Infrastructure, AIRMO-powered Intelligence
To deliver customer-grade methane intelligence from space, AIRMO needs speed, reliability, and a clear path to scale—without the risk, cost and delays of building an in-house satellite or mission operations capability. The end-to-end Space Service provided by EnduroSat covers payload integration, testing and qualification, launch brokerage, commissioning, and in-orbit operations—allowing AIRMO to focus its resources on what customers pay for: emissions intelligence and analytics outcomes.
Working with a demanding payload and an ambitious timeline, AIRMO found a perfect fit for the mission with the cableless, modular design of EnduroSat’s patented FRAME-15 software-flexible satellite. The platform creates significant cost and speed efficiencies because it can be configured to any advanced mission’s requirements without requiring any additional engineering. EnduroSat was also able to cover AIRMO’s rapid scaling goal through its newly opened 17 500 sqm R&D and production facility capable of producing two 200-500kg satellites daily with an unprecedented 8 hour satellite assembly, integration and testing enabled by its modular satellite architecture.
“We needed a partner who could match our pace and our ambition. EnduroSat brings exactly the technical depth and mission execution experience we need to get our payload to orbit on schedule and performing to spec.”
— Daria Stepanova, CEO & Co-founder, AIRMO
“High quality emissions monitoring is becoming foundational infrastructure, and we’re proud to support AIRMO in deploying it. By removing complexity from satellite missions, we enable companies to focus on what they do best—turning space data into real world intelligence.”
—Raycho Raychev, Founder and CEO of EnduroSat.
About AIRMO
AIRMO is building the single source of truth for greenhouse gas emissions monitoring, combining satellite remote sensing, airborne TDLAS sensors, and AI-driven data analytics. Backed by venture capital and the European Space Agency, AIRMO operates from Berlin, Munich and Luxembourg. www.airmo.io
About EnduroSat
EnduroSat is a space infrastructure builder that engineers, manufactures, and operates high-performance satellites, making space universally accessible for commercial and institutional customers across the globe. EnduroSat delivers end-to-end satellite missions—from mission design and payload integration to launch and in-orbit operations—through a fixed-cost, constellation-as-a-service model.
www.endurosat.com
Media Contact
Daria Stepanova
CEO & Co-founder, AIRMO
daria@airmo.io