This stratospheric airship is 65,000 feet above Earth and investigating which gas companies are leaking methane

This stratospheric airship is 65,000 feet above Earth and investigating which gas companies are leaking methane

Inside an airplane hangar in Roswell, New Mexico, a massive blimp-like airship—214 feet long—is getting ready to float into the stratosphere. Built by a startup called Sceye (pronounced “sky”), the helium-filled aircraft is designed to gather information that satellites miss. In its next flight, in July, it will hover over New Mexico sending back real-time data about pollution from the state’s hundreds of oil and gas producers. It can report not…