NASA will “baby” TEMPO to extend its life

The first NASA satellite to measure air pollution hourly shows so much promise that space agency officials are already thinking about ways to extend its life. “We want TEMPO to last for 10 years, if possible,” Barry Lefer, NASA tropospheric composition program manager, said Dec. 12 at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting here. “So, we are going to baby it.” TEMPO, short for Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, was sent aloft in April as a hosted payload on Intelsat 40e, a geostationary communications satellite. More

(Source: SpaceNews - Dec 14)