>An $88m (£65m) satellite designed to detect releases of the planet-warming gas methane from oil and gas production, has been lost in space in a major setback for climate efforts.
>The MethaneSat satellite which had backing from Google and billionaire Jeff Bezos, was launched only last year aboard an Elon Musk SpaceX rocket.
>It was meant to collect data for five years on sources of the powerful greenhouse gas, which is responsible for nearly a third of human-induced warming, to help curtail the worst offenders.
>But after just a year in orbit, in what was meant to be a five-year programme, communication was lost with MethaneSat.
>The team at EDF suspect that the satellite has lost power and said in a statement "that it is likely not recoverable."
Aliens took down our pollution tracking satellite. Does this happen in your solar system?