Hydrogen monitoring via satellite features in ESA study

Specifically, the award was to the Northampton company and Teesside University’s Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre (NZIIC).

Hydrogen monitoring

The study will look at ground-based sensing, resilient communications and cloud-based reporting. And consider how to combine them into a practical service, to support the safe expansion of green hydrogen infrastructure.

The ESA-funded activity will bring together Teesside University’s Raman LIDAR research with AmbaSat’s remote monitoring, communications and reporting platform.

Energy transition

“Hydrogen is clearly going to play an important role in the wider energy transition, but it also brings practical challenges around monitoring, reporting and confidence in day-to-day operations,” said the CEO of AmbaSat, Martin Platt.

“This study gives us the opportunity to assess whether a useful service can be developed by combining wide-area sensing with resilient communications and cloud-based reporting. Our focus is on something practical, credible and commercially relevant.”

For its part, the NZIIC highlighted the role of applied research. Professor Kumar Patchigolla of Teesside University said:

“This project brings together applied research and operational service development in a very constructive way.”

“The feasibility study will allow us to examine the sensing approach, system integration and real-world requirements in more detail, while also considering the wider commercial and regulatory context in which such a service would need to operate.”

The project’s aim – the organisations highlight – is not to actually launch a finished product. It is to determine if a commercial service is viable.

Image: Khurram Hussain (AmbaSat), Professor Ruben Pinedo-Cuenca (Teesside University – TU), Martin Platt (AmbaSat), Professor Kumar Patchigolla (TU), Dr. Shadab Alam (TU), Dr. Atma Prakash (TU).

See also: AmbaSat showcases AmbaSat 3U CubeSat at regional space conference