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Bezos-Backed Methane Tracking Satellite Is Lost In Space
Wednesday July 2, 2025. 09:00 AM , from Slashdot
![]() EDF reported the lost satellite to federal agencies including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Space Force on Tuesday, it said. Building and launching the satellite cost $88 million, according to the EDF. The organization had received a $100 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund in 2020 and got other major financial support from Arnold Ventures, the Robertson Foundation and the TED Audacious Project and EDF donors. The project was also partnered with the New Zealand Space Agency. EDF said it had insurance to cover the loss and its engineers were investigating what had happened. The organization said it would continue to use its resources, including aircraft with methane-detecting spectrometers, to look for methane leaks. It also said it was too early to say whether it would seek to launch another satellite but believed MethaneSAT proved that a highly sensitive instrument 'could see total methane emissions, even at low levels, over wide areas.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/01/2211218/bezos-backed-methane-tracking-satellite-is-lost-in-...
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