Bezos-Backed Methane Tracking Satellite Is Lost In Space

Slashdot ^ | July 2, 2025 | BeauHD

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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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[The satellite is] lost in space after going off course and losing power over Norway. "We're seeing this as a setback, not a failure"...

This reminds me of something from a movie.....

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Arthur draws his sword and approaches the Black Knight.
A furious fight now starts lasting about fifteen seconds at which point Arthur delivers a mighty blow which completely severs the Black Knight’s left arm at the shoulder.
Arthur steps back triumphantly.

Arthur: Now stand aside worthy adversary.
Black Knight(Glancing at his shoulder): ‘Tis but a scratch.”
Arthur: A scratch?  Your arm’s off.
Black Knight: No, it isn’t.
Arthur (Pointing to the arm on ground): Well, what’s that then?”
Black Knight: I’ve had worse.
Arthur: You’re a liar.
Black Knight: Come on you pansy!

Another ten seconds furious fighting till Arthur chops the Black Knight’s other arm off,also at the shoulder. The arm plus sword, lies on the ground.

Arthur: Victory is mine.  (sinking to his knees)
I thank thee O Lord that in thy …”
Black Knight: Come on then.
Arthur: What?

He kicks Arthur hard on the side of the helmet.  Arthur gets up still holding his sword.
The Black Knight comes after him kicking.

Arthur: You are indeed brave Sir Knight, but the fight is mine.
Black Knight: Had enough?
Arthur: You stupid bastard.  You haven’t got any arms left.
Black Knight: Course I have.
Arthur: Look!
Black Knight: What!  Just a flesh wound. (kicks Arthur)
Arthur: Stop that.
Black Knight (kicking him): Had enough … ?”
Arthur: I’ll have your leg.

He is kicked.

Arthur: Right!

The Black Knight kicks him again and Arthur chops his leg off.
The Black Knight keeps his balance with difficulty.

Black Knight: I’ll do you for that.
Arthur: You’ll what …?
Black Knight: Come here.
Arthur: What are you going to do – bleed on me?
Black Knight: I’m invincible!
Arthur: You’re a looney.
Black Knight: The Black Knight always triumphs. Have at you!

Arthur takes his last leg off.
The Black Knight’s body lands upright.

Black Knight: All right, we’ll call it a draw.

[Recompennation]

Call Dr. Smith.

[HYPOCRACY]

Quick! Fart now! It’s not being tracked.

[Pikachu_Dad]

ROFLOL !!!

[butlerweave]

Maybe it’s gone to Uranus looking for Methane . LOL

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Oh, the pain, the pain

[bigbob]

Maybe they should just track cows instead.

[HandyDandy]

Maybe it has gone looking for the cow that jumped over the moon?

[epluribus_2]

Lost its USAID Climate Crisis funding?

[RetiredTexasVet]

as a setback, not a failure

Call it what you want, but it is really a major f—kup.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I guess it’s in the wind...space wind.

[Navy Patriot]

Bezos-Backed Methane Tracking Satellite Is Lost In Space

I have it from a good source that the satellite was targeted by a very powerful and highly accurate Cow Fart.

[Eli Kopter]

Was it propane powered?

[Fireone]

Anyone know if John F’ing Kerry, or Greta Funbuns are in, or near, Norway?
The methane cloud around those two could send a satellite heading for Pluto.

[_longranger81]

Methane?

Methane??

Dude; I thought you said “Methamphetamine.” I been gettin’ wicked frickin’ lost lookin’ for sum...more...ya got any meth?

[frank ballenger]

It’s not an easy thing to be lost in space. Danger all around.

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+lost+in+space&sca_esv=50dc833e4eea275e&udm=2&biw=1052&bih=506&ei=JallaMfSCJfHp84P7s-ogQM&ved=0ahUKEwiH-cvBk5-OAxWX48kDHe4nKjAQ4dUDCBE&oq=images+lost+in+space&gs_lp=EgN

[Ezekiel]

This reminds me of something from a movie.....<<<

Thanks to Mr. Fusion, all the garbage fuses together:

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...

AI sez:

Garbage, specifically organic waste in landfills, is a significant source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the release of BTTF.

Every time one finds the number forty in Torah, its inner meaning is the ascent from one level to the next higher one.

We get a new mission at forty. But the attainment of a higher level can come only after first reaching and fulfilling all aspects of the previous level, and then making an emptiness in the middle to allow for the emergence of something entirely new.

Forty, then, represents both the completion of the previous level, and leaving it behind, nullifying it, and forty also represents the inauguration and structuring of a new existence (the Torah given in forty days, the development of the fetus, and so forth).

Forty is composed of 4 x 10

https://www.betemunah.org/forty.html

(Or as 10 and 04. Save the clock tower.)

MethaneSAT

Those Chipmunks really get around:

♫ The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) ♪

[ConservativeMind]

I’ll help him.

Jeff, I had methane emanating from my house and car the past two days, due to having eaten fiber from beans and keto breads.

Contact me tomorrow if you want another 24-hour report.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"...if we hadn't taken this risk"

LOL, WHAT risk? It's a basic earth resources satellite, just like many others that have been launched the past 50 years.

My dad (may he RIP) had a major project management role in Landsat 1 (LS-1), formerly named Earth Resources Technology Satellite ERTS-A or ERTS-1. It was the first major earth-observing satellite of the United States' Landsat program. It was a modified version of the Nimbus 4 meteorological satellite and was launched on July 23, 1972. Dad worked on the Nimbus program, too.