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Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution
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<h2 id="earth-venture-instrument-program">Earth Venture-Instrument program</h2> <p>TEMPO, which is a collaboration between NASA and the <a href="/facts/Smithsonian_Astrophysical_Observatory/1Bz2ApPt">Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory</a>, is NASA's first Earth Venture-Instrument (EVI) mission.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> The EVI program is an element within the Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) program office, which is under NASA's <a href="/facts/Science_Mission_Directorate/uNhAcYLb">Science Mission Directorate</a> Earth Science Division (SMD/ESD). EVI's are a series of innovative "science-driven, competitively selected, low cost missions". The series of "Venture Class" missions were recommended in the 2007 publication <i>Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> "[I]nnovative research and application missions that might address any area of Earth science" are selected through frequent "openly-competed solicitations".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> </p><p>Earth Venture missions are "small-sized competitively selected orbital missions and instrument missions of opportunity" and include <a href="/facts/NISAR_(satellite)/mwTIRBWq">NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar</a> (NISAR), <a href="/facts/Surface_Water_and_Ocean_Topography/QS73Xy2E">Surface Water and Ocean Topography</a> (SWOT), <a href="/facts/ICESat-2/sD1Jr3fH">ICESat-2</a>, <a href="/facts/SAGE_III_on_ISS/M8XmPjFy">SAGE III on ISS</a>, <a href="/facts/GRACE_and_GRACE-FO/FaqC42jK">Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow On</a> (GRACE-FO), <a href="/facts/Cyclone_Global_Navigation_Satellite_System/pm6B4I1H">Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System</a> (CYGNSS), <a href="/facts/ECOSTRESS/H7kY8PKb">Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station</a> (ECOSTRESS), and the <a href="/facts/Global_Ecosystem_Dynamics_Investigation_lidar/4M1gtefk">Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation lidar</a> (GEDI).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://tempo.si.edu/">TEMPO website</a> by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>William Harwood (7 April 2023). "SpaceX launches Intelsat relay station carrying NASA air pollution monitor". CBS News. Retrieved April 7, 2023. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launches-nasa-air-pollution-monitor-satellite/" target="_blank">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launches-nasa-air-pollution-monitor-satellite/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Justine Calma (7 April 2023). "NASA's powerful new air quality monitor has launched into space". Retrieved April 7, 2023. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23673162/nasa-air-quality-monitor-satellite-launch-tempo" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23673162/nasa-air-quality-monitor-satellite-launch-tempo</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"NASA's TEMPO instrument to measure air quality in NY, LA and Chicago". CBS News. 14 March 2023. Retrieved April 7, 2023. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/nasa-tempo-instrument-chicago/" target="_blank">https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/nasa-tempo-instrument-chicago/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>William Harwood (7 April 2023). "SpaceX launches Intelsat relay station carrying NASA air pollution monitor". CBS News. Retrieved April 7, 2023. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launches-nasa-air-pollution-monitor-satellite/" target="_blank">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launches-nasa-air-pollution-monitor-satellite/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"NASA's TEMPO Mission to Launch in Early April". 3 April 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2023. <a href="https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/2023/04/03/nasas-tempo-mission-launch/" target="_blank">https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/2023/04/03/nasas-tempo-mission-launch/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Zoogman, P.; et al. (January 2017). "Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)" (PDF). Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 186: 17–39. Bibcode:2017JQSRT.186...17Z. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.05.008. PMC 7430511. PMID 32817995. <a href="https://arroma.uiowa.edu/docs/publication/paper_pdf/2017/Zoogman.pdf" target="_blank">https://arroma.uiowa.edu/docs/publication/paper_pdf/2017/Zoogman.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Maxar Integrates NASA Pollution-Monitoring Payload with Intelsat 40e Spacecraft". Maxar Technologies. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021. <a href="https://blog.maxar.com/space-infrastructure/2021/maxar-integrates-nasa-pollution-monitoring-payload-with-intelsat-40e-spacecraft" target="_blank">https://blog.maxar.com/space-infrastructure/2021/maxar-integrates-nasa-pollution-monitoring-payload-with-intelsat-40e-spacecraft</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Maxar Technologies Will Build Next-Generation Intelsat Epic Geostationary Communications Satellite with NASA Hosted Payload". Maxar Technologies (Press release). Business Wire. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020. <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200203005185/en/" target="_blank">https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200203005185/en/</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Werner, Debra (22 July 2019). "Maxar to install NASA pollution sensor on commercial satellite". SpaceNews. Retrieved 18 November 2019. <a href="https://spacenews.com/maxar-to-install-nasa-pollution-sensor-on-commercial-satellite/" target="_blank">https://spacenews.com/maxar-to-install-nasa-pollution-sensor-on-commercial-satellite/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Baylor, Michael. "Falcon 9 Block 5 - Intelsat-40e/TEMPO". Next Spaceflight. Retrieved 15 February 2023. <a href="https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4083" target="_blank">https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/4083</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"TEMPO Twitter page". Twitter.com. Retrieved 5 June 2019. "TEMPO will measure pollution of N. America hourly at high spatial resolution. NASA's first Earth Venture Instrument mission is a collaboration with Smithsonian". <a href="https://twitter.com/TEMPO_Mission" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/TEMPO_Mission</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Missions: Earth Venture-Instrument". NASA. Retrieved 5 June 2019. <a href="https://eospso.nasa.gov/mission-category/55" target="_blank">https://eospso.nasa.gov/mission-category/55</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond. National Academies Press. 2007. doi:10.17226/11820. ISBN 978-0-309-66714-2. LCCN 2007936350. <a href="978-0-309-66714-2" target="_blank">978-0-309-66714-2</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"Missions: Venture Class". NASA. Retrieved 5 June 2019. <a href="https://eospso.nasa.gov/mission-category/13" target="_blank">https://eospso.nasa.gov/mission-category/13</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Neeck, Steven P. (October 2015). Meynart, Roland; Neeck, Steven P; Shimoda, Haruhisa (eds.). The NASA Earth Science Flight Program: An update. Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XIX. Vol. 9639. 963907. Bibcode:2015SPIE.9639E..07N. doi:10.1117/12.2199919. ISBN 978-1-62841-849-1. S2CID 131347159. <a href="978-1-62841-849-1" target="_blank">978-1-62841-849-1</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>