A climate change-monitoring satellite worth $88 million, launched by Elon Musk with the backing of Google and Jeff Bezos, has suffered what’s been described as a catastrophic system failure. The spacecraft—designed to monitor the atmospheric growth of methane,

An $88mn satellite backed by Google, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been lost in space, in a blow to global efforts to detect the planet-warming emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane from the oil and gas industry.