ESA Biomass Mission
Biomass is an ESA Earth Explorer mission designed to measure forest structure, woody biomass, and stored carbon with the first fully polarimetric P-band synthetic-aperture radar flown for systematic Earth observation. Vega-C placed the Airbus-built satellite into a 666-kilometre Sun-synchronous orbit for a planned mission of at least five years.
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- Earth Explorer BiomassVV26
- Name
- ESA Biomass Mission
- Status
- active
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- Description
- Biomass is an ESA Earth Explorer mission designed to measure forest structure, woody biomass, and stored carbon with the first fully polarimetric P-band synthetic-aperture radar flown for systematic Earth observation. Vega-C placed the Airbus-built satellite into a 666-kilometre Sun-synchronous orbit for a planned mission of at least five years.
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- Outcome
- Successfully entered Sun-synchronous orbit and began Earth-observation operations
- Program
- ESA Earth Explorers
- Start Date
- 2025-04-29
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- Creation Time
- July 20, 2026 at 13:20:56 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 20, 2026 at 13:20:56 UTC
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