Northallerton-based AmbaSat Ltd and the university’s Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre (NZIIC) have been awarded a €250,000 contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to carry out a 12-month feasibility study into a satellite-enabled hydrogen monitoring service for industrial applications. The ESA-funded activity will assess a service concept that brings together Teesside University’s Raman LIDAR research with AmbaSat’s remote monitoring, communications and reporting platform. Professor Kumar Patchigolla of Teesside University said: "This project brings together applied research and operational service development in a very constructive way. The proposed concept is intended to support remote data transfer and service visibility at sites where terrestrial communications may be limited or unreliable. By combining sensing, remote gateway capability and cloud analytics, the consortium will assess how a future service might support operators with alerting, reporting and audit-ready data outputs.