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Biomass forest measuring satellite shipped to Kourou

Its launch scheduled in April 2025 and will operate in orbit for five years

Biomass, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Airbus-built satellite, has left in the last days Toulouse for its journey by ship to Kourou, French Guiana, ready for launch.An Earth Explorer satellite is ESA's flagship mission to measure forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes from an altitude of 666 km above the Earth. The spacecraft will carry the first space-borne P-band synthetic a...

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Toulouse, France, 02/24/2025 11:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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