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What Goes Up Must Come Down

A new study underscores growing unease about pollution from mostly unregulated commercial space activities.

By Bob Berwyn

A SpaceX rocket lifts off from Starbase, Texas, for a test flight on Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images
A view of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) payload on its way to the International Space Station in 2019. Credit: Christina Koch/NASA

Will NASA Kill a Pair of Critical Climate Satellites?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A team of scientists work on the PACE satellite in May 2023. Credit: NASA

New NASA Mission Tracks Microscopic Organisms in the Ocean and Tiny Particles in the Air to Monitor Climate Change

By Teresa Tomassoni

MethaneSAT launched via SpaceX's Transporter-10 on March 4. Credit: SpaceX

Q&A: What’s So Special About a New ‘Eye in the Sky’ to Track Methane Emissions

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

The data collected from MethaneSAT will be publicly available in near real-time. Credit: MethaneSAT

A New EDF-Harvard Satellite Will Monitor Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Production Worldwide

By Phil McKenna

Google Powers Up Its 'Earth Engine' with Eye on Saving the Amazon

By Amy Westervelt

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Lost at Launch

By Laura Shin

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