Vega-C | Biomass
Launch Successful
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
April 29, 2025, 9:15 a.m. - April 29, 2025, 9:15 a.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
April 29, 2025, 9:15 a.m. - April 29, 2025, 9:15 a.m.
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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.
Spacecraft confirmed operational.
Biomass deployed.
Liftoff
Tweaked T-0.
Official Webcast by arianespace has started
Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. As with Vega, its main elements are three solid-propellant stages, an upper stage powered by a reignitable liquid-propellant engine and a payload fairing. Vega-C's P120C first stage replaces Vega’s smaller P80 to provide a significant increase in thrust at liftoff. It is also used as boosters (2 or 4) for the Ariane 6 rocket.
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