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NASA TEMPO Media Teleconference
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Intelsat 40e
NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the upcoming launch of TEMPO, 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.
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Intelsat 40e
SpaceX | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 7, 2023, 4:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Intelsat 40e is an advanced geostationary satellite that will provide Intelsat’s government and enterprise customers across North and Central America with high-throughput, “coast-to-coast” services. The satellite’s capabilities will support the growing number of customers that depend on Intelsat’s managed services and solutions to easily integrate satellite into their overall networking and communications strategies. Hosted on the Intelsat 40e satellite is NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO), an Earth science instrument that will observe air pollution over North America in unprecedented detail.
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