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The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its flagship Biomass satellite on 29 April 2025 at 06:15 local ... global-scale maps of forest biomass by penetrating forest canopies to assess ...

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Toulouse, France, 29 April 2025 - The Airbus built forest monitoring satellite Biomass has been successfully launched ... Models in densely forested areas and provide a completely new view of the ...

Known as the Biomass satellite, it is equipped with a powerful 12-meter radar antenna capable of seeing through clouds and dense forest canopies-something previous satellites could not achieve. This ...

Liftoff occurred at 5:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday (April 29). A European forest-monitoring satellite headed toward orbit from South America early Tuesday morning (April 29). The European Space Agency's ...

The satellite will conduct multiple passes over rainforests and use a CT scan-like method to analyse “slices” of forest, creating a layered view of the woody biomass. This material acts as a ...

allowing ESA to see the mass and structure of different forest types. While it's in orbit, the satellite will also take a look at glacier and ice sheet velocities, as well as the subsurface ...

The signal is then bounced back to the satellite in space, which captures the data on a 40-foot deployable antenna. That calculation — forest biomass — is important “because it’s a ...