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Tracking satellite lost in Space
July 03, 2025
|Cape Argus
A SATELLITE backed by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been lost in space while carrying out an important climate change mission, New Zealand officials said yesterday.
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Designed to measure greenhouse gas emissions with “unprecedented resolution”, the MethaneSAT space probe was also funded by Wellington and the US-based Environmental Defence Fund.
Plagued with technical problems, the satellite recently stopped responding to its Earth-bound controllers.
“Clearly, this is a disappointing development,” said Andrew Johnson, a senior official at the New Zealand Space Agency.
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