Methane-Sniffing Satellite Lost in Space, Goes Dark After 14 Months

We're trying not to snicker and laugh out loud, but it's hard. In May of last year, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a Big Green group dedicated to eliminating the use of fossil fuels, launched a methane-sniffing satellite called MethaneSAT (see EDF Gets Ready to Launch Satellite to Sniff Out Fugitive Methane). MethaneSAT uses algorithms from Google to estimate how much methane is leaking. In other words, the data collected is a guess and not real science. We don't have to worry about any more wrong guesses. MethaneSAT has "gone dark" and quit communicating with Earth. It's officially lost in space.

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