The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:30 a.m. Eastern Time
Friday to launch NASA’s air quality monitoring instrument, the
agency said on Thursday.
The instrument, named TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring
of Pollution instrument), will lift off from Cape Canaveral Space
Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9
rocket.
TEMPO is the first space-based instrument to monitor major air
pollutants hourly in high spatial resolution — down to four square
miles — in a region stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and from the Canadian oil sands to below Mexico City, encompassing
the entire continental United States, according to NASA.
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