Everything is ready for the launch of Biomassthe new satellite of the European Space Agency designed to check the state of health of the forests From all over the world and calculate the amount of carbon they contain. The launch is scheduled for April 29 at 11:15 am Italian time with the Vega C rocket from the European spaceport of Kourou, in French Guyana.
“The operations Of Preparation for the launch proceed on a regular“, Antonio Pizzicaroli, head of the management of Avio’s integration operations, the Italian company that creates the European rocket Vega told Ansa.” Weather forecast I am goodbut – he added – we will have the latest indications with the launch of some balloons probe only during the day “.
The launch, called VV26it will be the Fourth with Vega Cthe new version of the Vega rocket with a large amount of load with the same costs, which will have to bring its load into a 666 kilometers of altitude. From there the attellite biomass, thanks to an innovative radar never used so far in space, will create a sort of ultrasound of all green areas in the world.
It is estimated that forests and forests absorb every year About 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but There are no measures precise On the amount of carbon present throughout the planet, a fact that biomass will now be able to obtain. The data of this mission are essential to understand with greater precision global phenomena, in particular theclimate evolution.
The project was carried out under the industrial guidance of Airbus. who involved dozens of European companies including the contributions of Leonardo and his joints Venture Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space.
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