NASA’s TEMPO Air Quality Monitor Reaches Orbit With Intelsat 40E

Mark Carreau April 07, 2023

Intelsat 40E commercial satellite

Credit: Maxar
NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution instrument (TEMPO), hosted on the Intelsat 40E communication satellite, was successfully launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, early April 7. Liftoff of the two-stage rocket occurred at 12:30 a.m. EDT, the opening...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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