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Bezos-Backed Methane Tracking Satellite Is Lost In Space
Slashdot ^ | July 2, 2025 | BeauHD

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cheese, Moose, Sister; Science
KEYWORDS: bezos; freepun; lostinspace; methane; satellite

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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.....

1 posted on 07/02/2025 1:58:57 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: dayglored
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.

2 posted on 07/02/2025 1:59:55 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored

Call Dr. Smith.


3 posted on 07/02/2025 2:00:39 PM PDT by Recompennation
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To: dayglored

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


4 posted on 07/02/2025 2:01:22 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: dayglored

ROFLOL !!!


5 posted on 07/02/2025 2:02:47 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: dayglored

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


6 posted on 07/02/2025 2:07:23 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: dayglored

Oh, the pain, the pain


7 posted on 07/02/2025 2:08:39 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
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To: dayglored

Maybe they should just track cows instead.


8 posted on 07/02/2025 2:11:27 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: bigbob

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


9 posted on 07/02/2025 2:14:32 PM PDT by HandyDandy (“Borders, language and culture.” Michael Savage)
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To: HandyDandy

Lost its USAID Climate Crisis funding?


10 posted on 07/02/2025 2:17:41 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: dayglored

as a setback, not a failure

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


11 posted on 07/02/2025 2:24:45 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: dayglored

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


12 posted on 07/02/2025 2:25:51 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: dayglored
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.

13 posted on 07/02/2025 2:33:18 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: dayglored

Was it propane powered?


14 posted on 07/02/2025 2:35:32 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: dayglored

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.


15 posted on 07/02/2025 2:37:08 PM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: dayglored

Methane?

Methane??

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


16 posted on 07/02/2025 2:41:18 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: dayglored

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


17 posted on 07/02/2025 2:49:46 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: dayglored; The Spirit Of Allegiance; SunkenCiv; Rennes Templar; null and void; Larry Lucido; ...
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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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

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

MethaneSAT

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18 posted on 07/02/2025 2:50:35 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: dayglored

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.


19 posted on 07/02/2025 2:54:23 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dayglored
"...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.

20 posted on 07/02/2025 2:56:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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