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Lost in Space: A ‘Game-Changing’ Emissions Satellite Just Went Dark
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’s orbit before meeting its untimely end.
Bezos-backed methane tracking satellite lost in space
The satellite was part of groundbreaking efforts to track methane pollution and make information public. Capping methane leaks is one of the quickest ways to tackle global warning, say scientists, and MethaneSAT was a publicly-available global map of emissions.
A satellite built by Denver-area companies was commissioned by a major environmental group for a five-year mission.
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MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with EarthMethane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise The Bezos-backed MethaneSAT satellite ...
An Auckland University physics professor says a taxpayer-funded satellite that is lost in space had persistent and deep-seated problems. The government paid about $30 million towards MethaneSAT which ...
Jeff Bezos' MethaneSAT, an $88 million satellite designed to track global methane emissions, has failed due to a complete ...
A methane-tracking satellite funded by billionaire Jeff Bezos and worth $88 million has gone missing in space, the operating ...
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