A Vega C rocket successfully launched an Earth science satellite for the European Space Agency, a mission officials said was ...

A first-of-its-kind satellite will be able to see through clouds and leafy canopies to assess how the world's rainforests are ...

Using a new radar technique, Biomass can 'see' through clouds and tree canopies down to the forest floor, where most ...

The satellite, named Biomass, launched with a rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, New Guinea, and separated from the ...

The Biomass satellite will measure the trunks, branches and stems of the trees that populate the planet's forests. ESA says ...

The Vega-C rocket was launched from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, and successfully placed the Biomass satellite into ...

“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 ...

ESA launches Biomass satellite with a massive radar umbrella to revolutionize forest carbon tracking from space. Its usefulness goes beyond that.

When Biomass begins its work, the earth observation satellite will provide the most accurate overview of the biomass of all ...

In a remarkable display of space activity, six rockets were launched within 18 hours on April 28-29, 2025, setting a new ...

Airbus Space Systems, part of the global major aerospace group Airbus, announced on Tuesday that the Biomass ...

Mapping the world's forests, said to include some 1.5 trillion trees, is a big, big job—one that will be made a whole lot ...