MethaneSAT: A Space Mission to Cut Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas – By Jeff Young (Newsweek) / March 5, 2024
Shortly after 2 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying several satellites into orbit.
These launches have become almost routine—SpaceX said it was the fifth successful launch and landing for that Falcon rocket—but one of the satellites aboard is anything but ordinary.
About the size of a home washing machine, the satellite called MethaneSAT will help protect the atmosphere it now orbits just above.
MethaneSAT is the product of an environmental group, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which raised $88 million for its design, construction and launch, making it the first satellite put into space by a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization.
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