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Latest News

First observations by the Total Anthropogenic and Natural emissions mapping SpectrOmeter-3 (TANSO-3) onboard the Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle “IBUKI GW” (GOSAT-GW)

Aug. 8, 2025
GOSAT-GW("IBUKI GW") Successful Launch and Completion of Critical Operations Phase

July 1, 2025
GOSAT-GW Launch Date Rescheduled

Jun. 24, 2025
Launch of GOSAT-GW Postponed

Jun. 19, 2025
The review article on the GOSAT-2 mission by Imasu et al. (2023) has received the "Most Cited" and "Most Downloaded" awards from Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (PEPS).

Jun. 10, 2025
The launch date of GOSAT-GW unveiled (in Japanese)

April. 25, 2025
Study on consistency of greenhouse gas concentrations between GOSAT and GOSAT-2 － Efforts to develop long-term data sets on greenhouse gas concentrations using the GOSAT series －

September. 11, 2023
In consideration of the current situation regarding the COVID-19 spread in Japan and overseas, the application deadline of the Third Research Announcement on Greenhouse Gases ...

January. 15, 2021
The Third Research Announcement on Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite Series (3rd GOSAT RA) was released and is now open for proposal submission until Friday, January 15, 2021

November 13, 2020
Regarding results of GOSAT-2 observational data analysis (carbon dioxide, methane, and carbon monoxide) and the start of their public release

November 13, 2020
GOSAT-2 Level 1 products are available to the public.
August 5, 2019
[Press Release] Analysis result of the proxy-method based retrievals from GOSAT-2 data : methane and carbon monoxide
July 5, 2019
[Press Release] IBUKI-2 (GOSAT-2) Successful Launch and Completion of Critical Operations Phase
November 1, 2018