The European Space Agency’s seventh Earth Explorer mission, Biomass, launched on Tuesday aboard an Arianespace Vega-C rocket. Biomass, which will study Earth’s forests and their impact on the planet’s climate, lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 09:15 UTC (6:15 AM local time).
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Arianespace suffered another issue with its Vega rocket during the launch of two Earth observation…
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Arianespace’s Vega rocket failed during the launch of the Falcon Eye-1 spacecraft for the United…
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Arianespace’s Vega rocket launched the second Moroccan remote-sensing satellite, Mohammed VI-B (MN35-B) 0 building on…