NASA MEDIA TELECON ON THE UPCOMING LAUNCH OF TEMPO, Apr 5, 2023, virtual, 1:00 pm ET

NASA will hold a media telecon on April 5, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET to discuss the upcoming launch of the Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument as a hosted payload on the commercial communications satellite Intelsat 40e.  The launch is scheduled for April 7.  TEMPO will be the first space-based instrument to observe air pollutants across North America every hour during daytime.

Participants in the media telecon, which will be streamed on NASA Live, are:

• Karen St. Germain, Earth Science Division director, NASA Headquarters
• Kevin Daugherty, TEMPO project manager, NASA’s Langley Research Center
• Xiong Liu, TEMPO deputy principal investigator, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
• Dennis Nicks, director of payload engineering, Ball Aerospace
• Aaron Abell, TEMPO project manager, Maxar
• Jean-Luc Froeliger, senior vice president of Space Systems, Intelsat