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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.
Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.
The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has blasted its Biomass satellite into space — and it could change everything we know about ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a special satellite that can see deep inside the world's tropical rainforests.
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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) on Tuesday (April 29) successfully launched its 'Biomass' satellite into orbit to map the ...
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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 ...
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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