The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is a non-profit environmental advocacy group focused on tackling climate change and promoting environmental solutions. Recently, EDF has expanded its activities into the space industry through its MethaneSAT project, which involves launching and operating a satellite to measure and track methane emissions globally. This initiative aims to provide data to corporations, governments, and the public to facilitate emissions reduction efforts. Partners include Google, Harvard University, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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New Zealand, Jeff Bezos, and the US-based Environmental Defense Fund are key backers of the MethaneSAT project, which monitors greenhouse gas emissions with unprecedented resolution.
BAE Systems worked with scientists from the Environmental Defense Fund and MethaneSAT, LLC to design and build MethaneSAT’s primary instrument.
The last payload deployed on Transporter-10 was MethaneSAT, developed by Ball Aerospace for the Environmental Defense Fund.
BAE Systems worked with scientists from the Environmental Defense Fund and MethaneSAT, LLC to design and build MethaneSAT’s primary instrument.
MethaneSAT is an Environmental Defense Fund affiliate that locates, measures, and tracks methane emissions with airborne sensors and a satellite scheduled to launch in 2024.
Ball Aerospace partnered with MethaneSAT, LLC, a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund, on the MethaneSAT mission.
MethaneSAT, projected to launch in 2024, was built on a Saturn-class microsat by Blue Canyon Technologies for the Environmental Defense Fund to measure methane emissions.
Ball Aerospace designed and is currently building the methane monitoring instrument for MethaneSAT LLC, a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund.
Ball Aerospace designed and is building a methane monitoring instrument for MethaneSAT, LLC, a subsidiary of Environmental Defense Fund, that will measure and track global methane emissions once launched.
MethaneSAT LLC, a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund, is preparing to launch a 350-kilogram satellite in late 2022 or early 2023 to pinpoint faint methane emissions from oil and gas fields.
The Bezos Earth Fund awarded a $100,000,000 grant to the Environmental Defense Fund to support work including completion and launch of MethaneSAT.
MethaneSAT, a subsidiary of Environmental Defense Fund, will launch its MethaneSAT spacecraft on a Falcon 9 in October 2022 through SpaceX’s smallsat rideshare program.
Environmental Defense Fund received a $100,000,000 grant on 2020-11-16 from the Bezos Earth Fund to support activities that include the completion and launch of MethaneSAT.
Blue Canyon Technologies is supplying X-SAT to MethaneSAT, a subsidiary of the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund, for an environmental monitoring satellite scheduled to launch in 2022.
The Environmental Defense Fund has a goal of helping to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 45% by 2025.
The Environmental Defense Fund is developing MethaneSAT, a privately developed spacecraft designed to track methane emissions.