The satellite's mission is to achieve the high-precision monitoring of the global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, and to provide satellite data for scientific research. Using the TanSat ...

China launched its carbon dioxide monitoring satellite TanSat on Dec. 22, 2016, becoming the third country after Japan and the United States to monitor greenhouse gases through its own satellite.

BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have produced the country's first global carbon dioxide flux dataset based on observation data from the carbon dioxide monitoring satellite TanSat ...