at least eight growth cycles in the world's forests.

Background

The Biomass satellite is part of ESA's FutureEO programme, which consists of Earth observation missions. Its initial launch date was set to 2020, but that was later delayed to 2025.

The entire cost of the mission was placed at around 400 million euros. The main scientific instrument aboard Biomass is a synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

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