Biomass launch contract signature

ESA and Arianespace have signed a contract that secures the launch of the Earth Explorer Biomass satellite. The contract was signed on 28 October 2019 by Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, (right) and Stéphane Israël, Chief Executive Officer of Arianespace. With liftoff scheduled for 2022 on a Vega rocket from French Guiana, this new mission is another step closer to mapping the amount of carbon stored in forests and how it changes over time though deforestation, for example.