With the 39-foot-wide (12 meters) antenna in place, the mission will soon enter its commissioning phase, in which the team will fine-tune the satellite's systems. ESA expects this process to last ...

The 1.2-tonne satellite, affectionately dubbed “space brolly” due to its massive 12-metre diameter deployable antenna, marks a paradigm shift in forest observation. Unlike conventional satellite radar ...

The huge antenna for the newly launched Biomass forest-monitoring satellite has been successfully deployed, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday (May 7). The multi-day deployment ...