Posted on 07/02/2025 1:58:57 PM PDT by dayglored
MethaneSAT, an $88 million satellite backed by Jeff Bezos and led by the Environmental Defense Fund to track global methane emissions, has been lost in space after going off course and losing power over Norway. "We're seeing this as a setback, not a failure," Amy Middleton, senior vice president at EDF, told Reuters. "We've made so much progress and so much has been learned that if we hadn't taken this risk, we wouldn't have any of these learnings." Reuters reports:
The launch of MethaneSAT in March 2024 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. It also sought to help enforce a further promise from 50 oil and gas companies made at the Dubai COP28 climate summit in December 2023 to eliminate methane and routine gas flaring. [...] While MethaneSAT was not the only project to publish satellite data on methane emissions, its backers said it provided more detail on emissions sources and it partnered with Google to create a publicly-available global map of emissions.
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In MOST cases a "TRUE SETBACK" is a FAILURE!
Keep "spinning" though.. sooner or later you'll find some BELIEVERS!
Amazon fart checker.
Whoopi knocked it out of orbit.
Needed to look up this TV series...
The 1970s science fiction comedy series, Quark, featured a space garbage truck. The show, which aired in 1978, centered around Adam Quark and his crew aboard the United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow. Their primary duty was to collect “space baggies” filled with garbage throughout the galaxy. The show parodied popular science fiction tropes of the time.
Whenever $88 million dollars is lost, it’s a failure.
That Bezos wedding screwed things up
I think his wedding cost something like 50+ million or so.
Maybe overnighted to the wrong address?
I find it ironic that Bezos’ New Glenn rocket uses natural gas (mostly methane) as fuel in the first stage.
Porch Pirates
BRAAAAAAP!
It is both a setback and a failure.
Sounds like it ran out of gas.
Good. Let the cows fart in peace!
Riding space plane, high on methane, Jeffie Bezos better watch your creed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind, cows have been farting since the beginning of time.
Is on the wrong track and headed for you
For some reason I keep channeling Dr. Jacob Bronowski from the old “Ascent of Man” series and pronouncing it me-thane in my head.
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