MethaneSAT, developed by a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), is an Earth observation satellite launched on March 4, 2024, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As a joint American-New Zealand mission, it monitors and measures global methane emissions, particularly from the oil and gas industry, with high precision to help mitigate climate change. MethaneSAT partners include the New Zealand Space Agency, Harvard University, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and its data is made publicly available via a dedicated website and Google Earth Engine.
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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.
The MethaneSAT satellite was declared lost in space in July.
This MethaneSAT spacecraft is the fifth Blue Canyon Saturn-class platform to launch and operate on-orbit successfully.
Blue Canyon Technologies launched the MethaneSAT satellite and established initial contact with the spacecraft.
Blue Canyon Technologies provided its largest small satellite platform, the Saturn-class bus, for MethaneSAT.
BAE Systems worked with scientists from the Environmental Defense Fund and MethaneSAT, LLC to design and build MethaneSAT’s primary instrument.
MethaneSAT launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
MethaneSAT offers high-precision emissions mapping over a 200 km by 200 km field of view.
The last payload deployed on Transporter-10 was MethaneSAT, developed by Ball Aerospace for the Environmental Defense Fund.
MethaneSAT launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
BAE Systems worked with scientists from the Environmental Defense Fund and MethaneSAT, LLC to design and build MethaneSAT’s primary instrument.
MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in early March 2024.
Google will create a dynamic methane map from MethaneSAT data that will be accessible to the public later in 2024.
MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch in March 2024.
Ball Aerospace delivered the MethaneSAT satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California 2024-02-05.
Ball Aerospace worked with scientists from EDF and MethaneSAT to design and build the primary scientific instrument for the mission and led spacecraft integration and environmental testing.
Carbice Space Pad is scheduled to launch in early 2024 on MethaneSAT, an advanced methane-tracking satellite.
Carbice Space Pad is scheduled to launch on MethaneSAT in early 2024.
MethaneSAT, funded in part by the New Zealand government, is set to launch in 2024 and is designed to identify sources producing more than 500 kg of methane per hour.
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.