An $88mn satellite backed by Google, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been lost in space, in a blow to global efforts to detect the planet-warming emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane from the oil and gas industry.
The MethaneSAT satellite was launched in March 2024 aboard SpaceX to monitor plumes and leaks of methane, an invisible greenhouse gas responsible for almost a third of the world’s warming in the industrial era.
But this week, MethaneSAT said the satellite had “lost power and that it is likely not recoverable”.
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