MethaneSAT, the first satellite made by an environmental nonprofit organization, was designed to monitor some of the world's ...

The satellite’s failure may have been technical, but there are questions about the government’s decision-making process ...

An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of ...

The spacecraft, MethaneSAT, was just a year into its mission to provide a clearer picture of planet-warming emissions from ...

The Bezos-backed MethaneSAT satellite has been declared "likely not recoverable" after losing contact with controllers just ...

An $88m (£65m) satellite designed to detect releases of the planet-warming gas methane from oil and gas production, has been ...

This week's announcement of the loss of a methane-detecting satellite , just days before New Zealand was meant to take over mission control, is a ...

Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to track – and stop – methane ...

The satellite encountered technical issues and stopped responding. The initial data it sent was promising, revealing ...

A satellite built by Denver-area companies was commissioned by a major environmental group for a five-year mission.

MethaneSAT had been collecting methane emissions data over the past year. It was one of the most advanced methane tracking satellites in space, measuring methane emissions in oil and gas producing ...