Biomass is an European Space Agency mission designed to measure the density of carbon stored in the world's forests. The spacecraft, built by Airbus Defence and Space, features the first civilian P-band synthetic aperture radar as well as a 12m-diameter deployable reflector from L3Harris made of over 900 km of gold-coated molybdenum 25µm wire. With a minimum operational lifetime of 5 years in its 666km 6am/6pm sun-synchronous orbit, the global coverage achieved every 9 months allows to precisely monitor the evolution of forests over time. (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)

Vega-C

Karte laden (OpenStreetMap)

Kartenvorschau: The Space Devs · Interaktive Karte: OpenStreetMap (laedt erst nach Klick)

• 29.04.2025 Spacecraft confirmed operational. (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)
• 29.04.2025 Biomass deployed. (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)
• 29.04.2025 Abheben
• 29.04.2025 T-0 leicht angepasst.
• 29.04.2025 Official Webcast by arianespace has started (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)
• 25.03.2025 GO für den Start.
• 03.02.2025 NET early April. (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)
• 27.03.2024 Targeting March 2025 (Original, deutsche Fassung folgt)

Quelle: Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs)