Vega-C | Biomass

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.

Earth Science · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

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• Flight VV26 | Biomass | Vega C | Arianespace — arianespace
• Vol VV26 | Biomass | Vega C | Arianespace — arianespace
• Volo VV26 | Biomass | Vega C I Arianespace — arianespace

1. P0DLiftoff
2. T+2M25SStage 2 Separation
3. T+4M31SStage 3 Separation
4. T+4M43SFairing Separation
5. T+7M10SKick Stage Separation
6. T+8MKick Stage Burn
7. T+53MKick Stage Burn
8. T+57MPayload Separation
9. T+1H46MKick Stage Burn

• Spacecraft confirmed operational.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 4/29/2025 · source

• Biomass deployed.

  hitura-nobad · 4/29/2025 · source

• Liftoff

  hitura-nobad · 4/29/2025 · source

• Tweaked T-0.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 4/29/2025 · source

• Official Webcast by arianespace has started

  LL2 · 4/29/2025 · source

• GO for launch.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 3/25/2025 · source

• NET early April.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 2/3/2025 · source

• Targeting March 2025

  Nosu · 3/27/2024 · source

• Launcher swapped with one for Sentinel-2C in summer 2023.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 12/5/2023 · source

• NET Q2 2024.

  Cosmic_Penguin · 10/2/2023 · source