{"id":72805,"date":"2025-07-09T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/09\/new-zealand-satellite-methanesat-missing-lost-in-space"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:10:58","slug":"methanesat-down-how-new-zealand-space-ambitions-fell-off-the-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72805","title":{"rendered":"MethaneSat down: how New Zealand space ambitions fell off the radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite built to track emissions fails just as New Zealand scientists about to take control and reap returns of NZ$29m government investment<\/p>\n<p>For scientist Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, the news that a methane-tracking satellite was lost in space last week left her feeling like the air had been sucked from her lungs.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just days before New Zealand was due to take control of the spacecraft, known as MethaneSat, which was designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/mar\/04\/satellite-to-name-and-shame-worst-oil-and-gas-methane-polluters\">\u201cname and shame\u201d the worst methane polluters in the oil and gas industry.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/09\/new-zealand-satellite-methanesat-missing-lost-in-space\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite built to track emissions fails just as New Zealand scientists about to take control and reap returns of NZ$29m government investmentFor scientist Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, the news that a methane-tracking satellite was lost in space last week l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,299,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72806,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72805\/revisions\/72806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}