The TEMPO instrument provides publicly available, hourly data
on air pollution across North
America
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 14,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems (LON:BA) received a
NASA Group Achievement Award at the NASA Langley Research Center
2023 Honor Awards Ceremony in Hampton,
Virginia Tuesday afternoon, recognizing the team for their
exemplary work on the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of
Pollution (TEMPO) instrument.
Team honored for outstanding performance in
the integration, testing, launch, and commissioning of the TEMPO
Instrument.
The TEMPO team was selected for the award for their "outstanding
performance in the integration, testing, launch, and commissioning
of the TEMPO Instrument."
"We are honored to be selected for this distinguished award from
our valued mission partners at NASA, which affirms the hard work
and dedication our team put forward to make this ambitious project
a reality," said Dr. Alberto Conti,
vice president and general manager of Civil Space for BAE Systems
Space & Mission Systems. "This award is not only a recognition
of the quality of the instrument, but of the meaningful change it
will help to bring to communities around North America moving forward."
TEMPO launched in April 2023 as a
collaborative mission between NASA and the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Center for Astrophysics |
Harvard & Smithsonian, to improve
remote air quality monitoring capabilities across greater
North America. The BAE
Systems-built instrument uses an ultraviolet/visible spectrometer
to scan across the continent and provide hourly, daytime
measurements of key atmospheric pollutants such as ozone, nitrogen
dioxide, and formaldehyde. The high resolution and frequency of
readings are providing scientists and public health officials with
precise data on the sources, concentration, and movement of
pollution, which will help to enhance the detail and accuracy of
air quality forecasts.
TEMPO's near-real-time data can be viewed on the mission
website: TEMPO Data for Public (si.edu)
BAE Systems developed TEMPO alongside the Geostationary
Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument, which
launched in 2020 and provides air pollution monitoring data for the
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and the National
Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) of South Korea.
For more information, please contact:
Sawyer D'Argonne, BAE Systems
Mobile: 303-250-6031
sawyer.dargonne@baesystems.us
www.baesystems.com/US
@BAESystemsInc
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