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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 ...
The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation ...
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World’s First Mission To "Weigh" All Of Earth's Forests From Space Launches“Our idea was to use a very special type of radar to map the world’s forests from space. The goal was to understand how ...
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Space probe to assess health of forests from Earth's orbitThe European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a space probe into Earth's orbit this month to map the carbon content ...
After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...
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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 ...
A satellite that looks like a giant parasol was launched into orbit today, and will open itself up automatically in space. The ‘space brolly’ was made by the European Space Agency, and blasted off ...
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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