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Satellite Programme:
BIOMASS
Programme details
Programme description
Single-satellite programme, for vegetation monitoring.
Earth Explorer opportunity mission in the framework of the ESA Living Planet programme. ESA responsible of development and operations.
Satellite with active stabilisation over 3 axes.
Design lifetime 5 years.
Sunsynchronous dawn-dusk orbit at 06:00.
See details at http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/EarthObservation/SP1324-1_BIOMASSr.pdf
Data circulation
Onboard stored data downlinked to the Kiruna station.
Processing and archiving at the ESA’s Payload Data Ground Segment at the Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Frascati (Rome).
Agencies
ESA
Programme lifetime
2023 - 2028
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational
, blue tag => planned
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 released
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 was released including new features related to Gap Analysis and satellite status information. With version 2.6 OSCAR/Space has a new URL; https://space.oscar.wmo.int . Please read more via the link here .