Tempo Satellite

December 20, 2023

TEMPO is NASA’s first Earth-observation satellite in geostationary orbit and has developed further from previous polar-orbiting satellites provided daily observations to provide 10 to 12 daily scans.
It stands for -Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution or widely known as TEMPO.
It aims to measure atmospheric pollution from Canada’s oil sands to the Yucatán Peninsula.
It also gets data from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
The TEMPO instrument is a UV-visible spectrometer, and the first ever space-based instrument to monitor air pollutants hourly across the North American continent during daytime.
It collects high-resolution measurements of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants, data which will revolutionize air quality forecasts.
The data gathered by TEMPO will be shared with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enhance air quality forecasting.
NASA and Intelsat are nurturing hopes for TEMPO’s functionality extending up to 10-15 years.