The deployment of the radar will start a couple days after launch and take four days, he said at a post-launch press conference. The launch was the first for the Vega C since its return to flight ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has blasted its Biomass satellite into space aboard a Vega-C rocket ... the first-of-its-kind satellite will deploy a radar antenna that looks like a giant space ...

The European Space Agency 's (ESA) Biomass spacecraft lifted off atop a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Tuesday at 5:15 a.m. EDT (0915 GMT; 6:15 a.m. local time in ...

Europe has regained its launch capability with the successful launch of the ESA’s VEGA-C rocket, and the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite, which was onboard, has just delivered its first radar images ...

the satellite is the first to carry a P-band synthetic aperture radar to penetrate forest canopies. The Biomass launch is the second of the Vega-C since the rocket was stood down following a ...

Leduc The Vega-C bounced back on its third-ever launch ... Explorers" satellite series — will use synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to study our planet's varied ecosystems, paying special attention ...