A methane-detecting satellite was lost, just days before New Zealand was meant to take over mission control. Here's what we know.

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MethaneSAT, the first satellite made by an environmental nonprofit organization, was designed to monitor some of the world's largest industrial contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. Now ...

An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of methane emissions across the globe, only survived about 15 months in Earth ...

The launch of MethaneSAT last March was a milestone in a years-long campaign by EDF to hold accountable the more than 120 countries that in 2021 pledged to curb their methane emissions.

MethaneSAT was designed to measure emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, which fuels climate change by trapping heat in the planet's atmosphere.

MethaneSAT, backed by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and the New Zealand government with funding of over $88 million, was launched in May 2024 in an effort to bring deeper transparency to methane ...

The taxpayer-funded climate satellite MethaneSat has lost contact with the ground and “is likely not recoverable”. “While this is difficult news, it is not the end of the overall MethaneSat ...

MethaneSAT had been collecting emissions data and images from drilling sites, pipelines, and processing facilities around the world since March, but went off course around 10 days ago, the ...

Methane emissions tracking satellite MethaneSAT lost contact with mission operations, and it is “likely not recoverable,” the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said in a statement. “After ...

A groundbreaking satellite named MethaneSAT has been launched into space with the goal of tracking global methane emissions. Scientists hope the technology will help hold oil and gas companies ...