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Vega-C rocket launches European forest-monitoring 'Biomass' satellite to orbit (video)
The European Space Agency 's (ESA) Biomass spacecraft lifted off atop a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Tuesday at 5:15 a.m. EDT (0915 GMT; 6:15 a.m. local time in Korea). Arianespace's stream began at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT), and the launch can now be watched on demand.
European space agency launches new satellite to count carbon in trees
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched a first-of-a-kind satellite on Tuesday that will count the carbon in Earth’s rainforests. Scientists hope to better understand the importance of rainforests in storing carbon and the impact of deforestation.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has blasted its Biomass satellite into space — and it could change everything we know about ...
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World’s First Mission To "Weigh" All Of Earth's Forests From Space LaunchesThe European Space Agency’s Biomass mission took to the sky on April 29 on a Vega-C satellite launched from French Guiana. Its scientific work will soon start, and it is set to revolutionize what we ...
After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...
The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.
There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...
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Europe’s mini food lab launches into space to grow steaks, potatoes from single cellsESA sent a bioreactor into space, the first step in manufacturing appealing food for astronauts and a multi-planetary human ...
New Zealand will have in place by July legislation regulating operators of ground-based space infrastructure, aimed at ...
On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was ...
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