{"id":122456,"date":"2025-11-07T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122456\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:20:09","slug":"speed-over-safety-how-methanesat-was-lost-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122456\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed over safety \u2013 how MethaneSAT was lost in space"},"content":{"rendered":"

At $30 million, MethaneSAT was easily New Zealand\u2019s largest ever investment in \u201cspace\u201d. It is also by far our biggest disappointment.<\/p>\n

Developed by US-based non-profit the\u00a0Environment Defence Fund<\/a>\u00a0(EDF), MethaneSAT aimed to detect methane leaking from oil and gas facilities worldwide. New Zealand\u2019s participation in the MethaneSAT mission was framed as a \u201cflagship\u201d for our fledgling national space programme.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhysics professor Richard Easther, from the Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland, covers ground that crosses particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics and astronomy.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Richard Easther\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At $30 million, MethaneSAT was easily New Zealand\u2019s largest ever investment in \u201cspace\u201d. It is also by far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[390,1184,111,7439,139,69,8780,147,392,145],"class_list":["post-122456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-climate-change","tag-health-science","tag-new-zealand","tag-newsroom-pro","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-premium","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}