BROOMFIELD, Colo.,
May 21, 2021
/PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace shipped NASA's Tropospheric
Emission: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer, an air
quality monitoring instrument, to the spacecraft manufacturer for
integration.
Ball will continue to work closely with NASA and the
manufacturer to support spacecraft integration and testing. The
TEMPO mission is scheduled to launch in 2022.
"TEMPO is an apt name for this instrument, as it will make
hourly daytime measurements of major air pollutants across
North America," said Dr.
Makenzie Lystrup, vice president and
general manager, Civil Space, Ball Aerospace. "This rapid tempo of
measurements will advance our understanding pollution in the
atmosphere – from Mexico City to
Canada and from coast to
coast."
The imaging spectrometer, which senses ultraviolet and visible
light, will make precise measurements of the key constituents of
air pollution, including nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide
and other atmospheric pollutants that have the greatest impact on
human health and agriculture productivity. Ball completed the TEMPO
instrument in 2018, delivered it to NASA Langley Research Center
after a successful final acceptance review and stored and
maintained the instrument until the spacecraft was ready for
integration.
Leveraging 40 years of heritage in Earth-observing instruments,
Ball built the TEMPO instrument in tandem with the Geostationary
Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS), the Asian element of
a global air quality monitoring constellation of geostationary
satellites. GEMS launched in February
2020. Ball is currently involved in several other
space-based environmental science and monitoring missions. It is
developing the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) of
hyperspectral instruments that measure the global distribution and
vertical structure of ozone for NASA and NOAA missions. Ball is
also building the advanced spectrometer instrument for MethaneSAT,
which will locate and measure methane emissions around the
globe.
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as aerospace and other technologies and services primarily for the
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