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Looks like the Biomass satellite is finally getting closer to launch, now estimated towards end 2023:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62650129
If everything works well this will be quite a milestone to get a clearer picture of the global carbon stock and its changes.
Unfortunately not though over North America and Europe since the US MoD uses the same radar frequency (P-band) to watch out for space debris and hostile rockets:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425717301943#f0005
I'm again confused regarding the the currently estimated launch date for the Biomass satellite:
End 2022?
https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/biomass
Some time in 2023:
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass
End 2023?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62650129
Early 2024?
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/space-umbrella-tree-survey
Feels like the date is getting shifted by 3 months every quarter 
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2 years have passed and there the Biomass satellite launch is still pending (probably because Vega-C was grounded for quite some time?). Now scheduled for sometime 2025 https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass 