January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... uptake of satellite data and to foster the development of downstream applications. In particular, it is focused on land management; biomass and carbon monitoring; fire prevention; water, forestry and agriculture management; and monitoring of coastal...
October 2024
Space exploration remains a crucial endeavour for humanity
... of the farming process and the growing environment mimics the closed-loop environment developed by NASA in the Biomass Production Chamber that demonstrated how to grow plants without sunlight and open air. Scientific and technological...
28 April 2016
Rocket Launch from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Successful
... (SAR) capable of observing targets hidden by vegetation and subsurface features as well examining global geology and vegetation biomass. The DMS-01 mass spectrometer analyzes the gaseous environment of the satellite, especially the outgassing of the...
30 October 2020
It seems there might not be life on Venus after all, say two new studies
.... What followed was a flurry of papers from researchers around the world discussing topics such as how much biomass was required to produce phosphine, to the potential pathways of formation of PH3, to how life, if it was there, could have...
12 September 2022
Scotland’s space sector flexes its green credentials
... for future generations. “We’re also backing missions to help monitor and tackle climate change, such as the UK-built Biomass satellite, which will measure carbon stored by the world's forests, and the new FORUM mission, which...
22 May 2020
Successful launch for Scottish space-based podcast
... colleagues at the University of Maryland on NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission, which uses LIDAR to measure biomass of tropical forests. Vladimir Ivan works with Valkyrie, the only NASA-built humanoid robot outside the...
