Boulder-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies will help build a space-based instrument for NASA to monitor air pollutants across North America, officials announced Monday. <\/p>\n
NASA selected Ball Aerospace as a member of its Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission. The TEMPO mission is aimed at tracking ozone, aerosols and other trace gases over North America to gauge how pollution affects climate change and air quality. <\/p>\n
The TEMPO team, led by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, will build a geostationary ultraviolet-visible spectrometer, officials said. Completion of the TEMPO instrument is scheduled for September 2017. <\/p>\n
TEMPO is expected to launch as a hosted payload on a commercial communications satellite. The mission costs -- excluding the launch vehicle and expenses related to integration with the satellite -- will be capped at $90 million, officials said. <\/p>\n
Ball Aerospace is a subsidiary of Broomfield-based Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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