TEMPO Mission

10/19/2023

Exciting news for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's TEMPO instrument to monitor air pollution: the TEMPO mission has officially begun!

TEMPO, or Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, has begun gathering daytime, hourly scans of the atmosphere over North America. These high-res scans monitor ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants in the air, revolutionizing air quality forecasts.

More info on the TEMPO mission here ➡️www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-shares-first-images-from-us-pollution-monitoring-instrument/

08/24/2023

It's official, we are on and working! Check out our first light images, which give a preview of our ability to track nitrogen dioxide on an hourly basis in geographic areas as small as four square miles!

Full story: https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/tempo-instrument-captures-its-first-images-air-pollution-over-greater-north-america

07/11/2022

Look who made it into TW@N!!
Check out minute 2:22 to see the TEMPO update.

Ready to showcase the Webb space telescope’s first full-color images, back in touch with a spacecraft on an important mission to the Moon, and our Artemis I ...

07/15/2021

We've reached another milestone on our journey to monitor air pollution over North America!! We've just completed integration of the Instrument Control Electronics (ICE) into the Intelsat4e spacecraft at Maxar! ICE is one of TEMPO's two major systems, and it's integration into the satellite brings us one step closer to launch.

05/24/2021

Did you hear the good news?!? We've made our way from
Ball Aerospace to Maxar. This key milestone brings us one step closer to integration onto the Intelsat 40e, our host satellite 🛰!

Learn more:

Cambridge, MA - A NASA-Smithsonian satellite instrument that will measure air pollution over North America reached another key milestone this week.

03/26/2021

We're so excited to see our colleagues at Sitting Bull College are breaking ground on their new Facility for Innovative Atmospheric Research and Education!

Construction is underway for a new Research Science building at Sitting Bull College.

The building will have atmospheric monitoring equipment on the roof and a laboratory below on the main floor for collecting and analyzing the atmospheric data. Another room will be a robotics laboratory for the Pre-engineering degree program at SBC. An analytical chemistry laboratory will also be included in the building as well as offices for faculty and graduate students. Two MS degree students at SBC, Kimberlee Blevins and Floris White Bull will be conducting their research from data collected from the monitoring equipment and NASA satellites.

04/22/2020

Happy from the entire TEMPO Team! We hope that you'll all take a moment with us to appreciate this beautiful planet we live on. Celebrate by exploring these great NASA Earth and Smithsonian resources:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/earthdayathome-with-nasa/
https://earthoptimism.si.edu/

Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, people around the world marked the first Earth Day. Thousands gathered to raise awareness about the importance of protecting our beautiful planet for future generations.

03/06/2020

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration is hosting a media teleconference at 10 a.m. EDT Monday, March 9, to discuss our international collaboration aimed at improving our understanding of air quality! The teleconference will stream live on https://nasa.gov/nasalive
You can even ask your own questions during the teleconference using the hashtag !
Panelists will include our own Kelly Chance, Barry Lefer, Jhoon Kim (GEMS), and Ben Veilhelmann (Sentinel-4)

Learn more at: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-hold-media-briefing-on-new-global-air-quality-constellation

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 10 a.m. EDT Monday, March 9, to discuss an international collaboration aimed at improving our understanding of air quality.

02/20/2020

Our sister instrument, S. Korea's GEMS (Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer)- also built by Ball Aerospace, has launched into orbit!

GEMS will be the first in our constellation of three 🛰️instruments revolutionizing how we observe . The European Space Agency's Sentinel-4, currently in development, will observe air quality over Europe.

South Korea's Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on the Korean Aerospace Research Institute GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite launched into orbit aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket Tuesday, Feb. 18, from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.

02/14/2020

Show some love for TEMPO 💕🛰️💕 this Valentine's Day by joining the Early Adopters!

TEMPO Early Adopters are building a plan to successfully prepare and deliver essential NASA TEMPO data products to the end user communities. Join the list and receive announcements on Early Adopter meetings, important team activities, and critical TEMPO mission updates!
Learn more and register here:

The NASA TEMPO instrument is scheduled for launch in the summer of 2022, and will be hosted on a commercial geostationary communications satellite for providing hourly daytime measurements over the Field of Regard (FOR) covering North America. For each geospatial scene in the FOR, the TEMPO grating....

02/03/2020

We're excited to share that Intelsat and Maxar have agreed to partner to host TEMPO on the 40e mission set to launch in 2022!

A NASA instrument that will measure air quality over North America in unprecedented detail during daylight hours now has a satellite host.

01/27/2020

Have you checked out yet? They're hosting a series of exciting webinars in February and March, including lots of sessions on , , and .
See more details and register here:

In place of a final, biannual meeting, HAQAST will host a series of webinars beginning in February 2020. Each webinar will last for a maximum of one hour. The first thirty minutes or so will be a hands-on training or seminar, and the final half-an-hour will be an open Q&A. We’ll host a morning (no...