Plumes of methane were spotted over Blue Origin's facility in West Texas by an instrument on board the International Space Station.
It's certainly no secret that methane figures into Blue Origin's plans. Its flagship rocket engine,, uses what's known as liquefied natural gas for propulsion, made almost entirely of methane. And according to a company spokesperson, these emissions are par for the course.
"We frequently transfer LNG from our suppliers into storage tanks at our engine test stands," the spokesperson toldUntil now, though, the Bezos venture's methane footprint has remained a relative unknown. Even with Carbon Mapper's latest findings, we can't narrow down its emissions for sure, but an air permit application spotted byAccording to the document, filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in 2020, Blue Origin estimates that it will emit around 3.
Blue Origin emitting several dozen more tons of the stuff annually may not be that much in the grand scheme of things — globally, the energy industryFor one, it is far from the only space firm to
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