Biomass, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Airbus-built satellite, has left Toulouse for its journey by ship to Kourou, French Guiana, ready for launch. Biomass, an Earth Explorer satellite, is ESA’s flagship mission to measure forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes from an altitude of 666km above the Earth. The spacecraft will carry…
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