New Zealand-backed satellite reaches orbit successfully (www.1news.co.nz)

submitted 8 months ago by Fizz@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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NZ government and US non-profit Environmental Defence Fund worked together on a satellite that will monitor methane emissions. EDF will be looking for global oil and gas leaks while NZ will be using it to measure our agricultural emissions.

Pretty cool stuff.

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[-] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 3 points 8 months ago

Very cool technology actually, I wonder why the downlink is so expensive?

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah they should just beam it over to a starlink sat

[-] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 2 points 8 months ago

I'd love to know how feasible that actually is.

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