As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on April 29, ESA has released its most extensive ...

Discover how nearly two decades of satellite data—and the new Biomass mission—are helping scientists map forest carbon across ...

To address this, ESA launched the Biomass satellite on April 29, 2025, equipped with P-band radar to penetrate forest canopies. Over 5.5 years, Biomass will generate 3D maps of forest biomass and ...

A secret Russian satellite that US officials believe is linked to Russia’s nuclear weapons program appears to be spinning uncontrollably in space, in a major blow for Moscow, according to ...

It started with a tweet. In 2019, during his first term as president, Donald Trump posted a surveillance photo of an Iranian missile site in the aftermath of an explosion. The quality of the image ...

That's about that change. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) put its Biomass satellite into orbit. Biomass is carrying the first P-band synthetic aperture radar in space. You can think of ...

The Biomass satellite is designed to measure carbon stocks in tropical forests, helping scientists to understand how they work and how they are changing. The European Space Agency (ESA ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Opening commercial very-high-resolution satellite image archives for non-commercial research could significantly enhance monitoring of smallholder farms, which ...

Liftoff occurred at 5:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday (April 29). A European forest-monitoring satellite headed toward orbit from South America early Tuesday morning (April 29). The European Space Agency's ...

The company said that it is on a mission to democratise satellite IoT access, delivering critical field-based monitoring services to a global market. Its network is designed specifically for the ...

The secretive Russian satellite in space that US officials believe is connected to a nuclear anti-satellite weapon programme has appeared to be spinning uncontrollably, suggesting it may no longer ...