2 Jul 2025

Multi-million-dollar MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable'

From Nights, 8:20 pm on 2 July 2025

Professor Richard Easther from the University of Auckland joins Emile Donovan to reflect on the news that New Zealand's methane-tracking satellite, launched in March 2024, has lost contact with the ground.

A model of the MethaneSAT satellite that will be taken over eventually by the University of Auckland's mission control centre.

A model of the MethaneSAT satellite that will be taken over eventually by the University of Auckland's mission control centre. Photo: MethaneSAT/EDF