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 study will examine how ground-based sensing, resilient communications and cloud-based reporting could be combined into a practical service to support the safe expansion of green hydrogen infrastructure. 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.