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Biomass on its way to orbit aboard Vega-C

Forest mission takes to the skies

Vega-C lofts ESA’s Biomass into orbit

ESA’s Biomass lifts off aboard Vega-C

Biomass takes to the skies

Biomass on its way to orbit

Vega-C takes Biomass into orbit

ESA’s forest mission launches

ESA’s forest mission lifts off

Biomass mission control team

Biomass on Vega-C ready for liftoff

Vega-C mobile gantry open

Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this radar image over French Guiana – home to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, where ESA’s Biomass mission is being prepared for liftoff on 29 April onboard a Vega-C rocket.

GEO-TREES logo

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Measuring the diameter of a tree in forest close to Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Groundwork in flooded forest in northern Peru

Measuring trees can be a bit of a balancing act

Scaling trees for science

Sentinel-1 radar image compared to interferogram

Myanmar earthquake coherence map from Sentinel-1

Myanmar interferogram from Copernicus Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 interferogram of Myanmar earthquake

Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar image of Myanmar

First Meteosat Third Generation Sounder bound for launch site

Meteosat Third Generation Sounder being loaded onto ship

Up the sails for ocean science

Checking in for the ESA Advanced Ocean Course

Aboard Statsraad Lehmkuhl

ESA Ocean Training Course sets sail

ESA Ocean Training Course patch

ESA’s Biomass satellite, encapsulated within a Vega-C rocket fairing, has been rolled out to the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of liftoff, planned for 29 April at 11:15 CEST.

ESA Advance Ocean Training Course route

Biomass in the launch tower

Biomass ready for liftoff

Biomass transfer and placement onto Vega-C

Sleeping arrangments aboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl tall ship

Biomass posed on top of Vega-C

TerraMind-generated scene over Boston

IBM logo

18/04/2025 14 views 0 likes

This very high-resolution image captures the Egyptian city of Giza and its surrounding area, including the world-famous Giza Pyramid Complex.

IOV Launch Campaign

ESA team in front of Biomass fairing

Global sea surface temperature

Sealing Biomass within the Vega-C fairing

Biomass inside one half of Vega-C's fairing

Biomass encapsulation begins

Biomass and Vega-C fairing half shells

Applying the Biomass mission sticker to the rocket fairing

Biomass released into orbit

Vega-C fairing release revealing Biomass

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