The satellite, named Biomass, launched with a rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, New Guinea, and separated from the ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

ESA launches Biomass satellite with a massive radar umbrella to revolutionize forest carbon tracking from space. Its usefulness goes beyond that.