MethaneSAT, the first satellite made by an environmental nonprofit organization, was designed to monitor some of the world's largest industrial contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. Now, without power,

An $88mn satellite backed by Google and Jeff Bezos has been lost in space, in a setback to global efforts to detect the planet-warming emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane from the oil and gas industry.

A climate change-monitoring satellite worth $88 million, launched by Elon Musk with the backing of Google and Jeff Bezos, has suffered what’s been described as a catastrophic system failure. The spacecraft—designed to monitor the atmospheric growth of methane,