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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 ...
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SpaceX's next private astronaut mission to ISS, Ax-4, to launch May 29 for Axiom Space"We're opening the door to new countries, institutions and individuals that can bring new ideas that can really fuel an ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Last year, Pakistan sent a satellite to the Moon aboard China’s lunar explorer, alongside payloads from the European Space ...
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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