SpaceX To Launch Bezos-Backed Methane-Tracking Satellite

Irene Klotz January 13, 2021
Artist's rendering of MethaneSAT.
Credit: Ball Aerospace
CAPE CANAVERAL—An $88 million project backed by the Jeff Bezos Earth Fund has selected SpaceX to launch a nonprofit’s methane-tracking satellite in October 2022. MethaneSAT LLC, a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) environmental advocacy group, last year hired Ball Aerospace to build...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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