The European European Vegetable-Co-Co-Co-successful rocket in the early hours of Tuesday (29) of the Kourou Space Center in the French Guyana. The obading of the mission is to put in orbit the innovative satellite biomoss, by the European Space Agency (ESA), which will monitor the tropical forests of the planet.
The European European Vegetable-Co-Co-Co-successful rocket in the early hours of Tuesday (29) of the Kourou Space Center in the French Guyana. The obading of the mission is to put in orbit the innovative satellite biomoss, by the European Space Agency (ESA), which will monitor the tropical forests of the planet.
Adriana BrandãoSpecial sent by Brazil RFI to Kourou
It was 6:15 in Kourou. The sun was born barely and the sound of the engines broke the silence. In a few according to the Veg-C rocket it has successfully taken off for relief and many applause by experts and controllers of the Kourou Space Center or European spatial door.
It was months of work to ensure the success of this moment. On the morning of 18:15 it was the only possible shooting window on Tuesday. Any unexpected event that delayed the mission, even in a second, would have postponed the release.
The 100% European Vega-C was aboard the innovative biomoss. Just less than an hour from the launch, the satellite has been placed, as expected, in polar orbit, synchronized with the sun, 666 kilometers from the earth. Another round of applause in the control center.
Understand the carbon cycle
The scientific mission is part of the observation program of the territory of the European Space Agency. The Biomoss satellite will monitor the tropical forests of the planet. It is equipped with an antenna synchronized in the P Band, which is a frequency of long waves, capable of penetrating the tops of the trees and studying the composition of the forests on the ground. This is the first time that a satellite uses this technology.
“It is an innovative technology, but above all it is a technology that can give us very important information on everything related to the quality of the forest in the areas and in the tropical regions. Not only the quality, but the health of the forests”, explains Simonetta Cheli, director of the ESA observation programs.
In addition to the “size”, scientists will have data on the height of the trees and the type of vegetation that make up tropical forests. The goal is to measure the volume of CO₂ stored in these biomes all over the world and understand its evolution. “It is essential to have important information parameters on everything that is related to the carbon cycle and therefore to the general climate,” says Simonetta Cheli.
Forests are considered “green lungs of the earth” for their ability to absorb eight trillion trillion of CO2 tons per year. With deforestation and climate change, carbon provided is released. The quantification of the overall carbon cycle is essential to better understand its climatic effects.
Role of Brazil
And since it is a mission to look at forests in tropical areas, Brazil will play an important role. “In this mission of biomass, Brazil plays a specific role in the sense that we have the installation of an installation, therefore a technical infrastructure in an area in which we have. We will therefore have a sort of antenna that will validate data from the satellite on the ground,” says Cheli.
“In addition, there will be land teams that will be present in the tropical rainforest to validate all the data that come from satellite to the other. This collaboration will begin before the commission phase, therefore in September and October, we will have a campaign of validation of the calibration because these campaigns are also made in preparation for the launch”, the scientist will conclude.
Source: Terra
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