NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday, April 7, to launch NASAs TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution instrument). TEMPO is thefirst 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.
Liftoff will be from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The instrument is a payload on the satellite Intelsat 40E. It was built by Ball Aerospace and integrated ontoIntelsat 40Eby Maxar.
Live launch coverage will air on NASA Television, the NASA app
