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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

Mission control GO for Biomass launch

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor fires on ground

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor test fire

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor QM3 test

Hovering over Europe’s flattest floor with AI

Simulations ongoing for Biomass launch

P120C and P160C on Vega-C and Ariane 6

Europe's largest solid-propellant rocket motors

CM25: Europe's solid-propellant rocket motors

CM25: High-Thrust Engine roadmap

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 team in front of Biomass fairing

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 on its launch adapter

Biomass being mated to the Vega-C launch adapter

Biomass being lifted onto the Vega-C launch adapter

Biomass and the Vega-C launch adapter

Biomass sticker on Vega-C fairing

Vega-C fairing getting its Biomass sticker

Biomass inside Vega-C

Space Rider's ALEK in LEAF

Space Rider's ALEK in LEAF on Vega third stage

Space Rider's ALEK on shaker

Space Rider's ALEK in accoustic chamber

Inspecting Space Rider's ALEK

New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor rolls out to its test stand

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor rolls out to its test stand

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor rolls out to its test stand

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor rolls out to its test stand

Technical centre at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana

Firing up HENON’s engine

Spectrum liftoff

Spectrum on the launch pad

Spectrum takes flight

Spectrum takes flight from Andøya Spaceport

Proba-3 mission team in the ESEC control room

Proba-3 spacecraft operators in the ESEC control room

Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft captured by a camera onboard the Occulter spacecraft during the mission's first autonomous formation acquisition

The final commands are sent to Gaia

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