Airbus created by European Space Agency Satellite (THIS) – Biomass, who arrived on a ship from a toulus to the chicke, French Guiana, Ready to run.
Biomass, Earth study satellite, is the flagship mission of ESA to measure forest biomass to evaluate inventory and terrestrial carbon from space. Space apparatus will bear the first cosmic radar with a synthesized P-band aperture, which ensures the creation of accurate tropical biomass maps, temperate and boreal forests.
Alain Faure, head of the Airbus Defense and Space space system, said: “Sending this flagship mission is a major milestone after many years of work by all our teams. Innovative satellite technology will allow climate scientists to accurately estimate carbon stocks and fluxes from space and improve understanding of the role, which forest plays in climate regulation".
The spacecraft is equipped with a SAR with a large 12-gauge antenna×15 meters to capture radio waves, which will be used to produce accurate global maps of tropical biomass, temperate and boreal forests. Data on changes in biomass through forest lands (example, due to logging/burning) and growth recovery is difficult to obtain using ground-based measurement methods.
Airbus engineers from Stevenage (Great Britain), where the satellite was built, conducted a successful test campaign in Toulouse with the support of colleagues from Airbus in Friedrichshafen (Germany).
Now the team is ready to operate and begin operating the satellite, a separate group will manage the delivery of the ground calibration transponder, located in New Norcia, Australia. The development and testing of the Biomass satellite involved more than 50 companies from 20 countries.
Biomass is scheduled to launch in April 2025 year on a Vega-C rocket from the Kuru Cosmodrome, with the duration of the satellite in orbit for five years.
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