diff --git a/ENV_CHANGELOG.md b/ENV_CHANGELOG.md
index 665061bf4..0dbd795ae 100644
--- a/ENV_CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/ENV_CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 Any changes to the environment variables will be documented in this file in chronological
 order with the most recent changes first.
 
+## 2024-02-19
+### Changed
+- TRAJECTORY_SUBSETTER_LIMITS_MEMORY - Increased to 8Gi to accommodate large GEDI L1B files.
+
+
 ## 2024-01-23
 ### Changed
 - HYBIG_IMAGE to point to ghcr.io hosted image.
diff --git a/services/harmony/env-defaults b/services/harmony/env-defaults
index c8827420f..d5a7b61b6 100644
--- a/services/harmony/env-defaults
+++ b/services/harmony/env-defaults
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ TRAJECTORY_SUBSETTER_IMAGE=sds/trajectory-subsetter:latest
 TRAJECTORY_SUBSETTER_REQUESTS_CPU=128m
 TRAJECTORY_SUBSETTER_REQUESTS_MEMORY=128Mi
 TRAJECTORY_SUBSETTER_LIMITS_CPU=128m
-TRAJECTORY_SUBSETTER_LIMITS_MEMORY=512Mi
+TRAJECTORY_SUBSETTER_LIMITS_MEMORY=8Gi
 TRAJECTORY_SUBSETTER_INVOCATION_ARGS='python harmony_service/adapter.py'
 
 PODAAC_CONCISE_IMAGE=ghcr.io/podaac/concise:sit