October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...satellites (MetOp-SG) but not launched until 2021. The Tropomi instrument will bring air pollution into focus. The S5P...mission consists of a single satellite carrying the sole instrument TROPOMI. The instrument development was financed in a large part...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
...noise ratio of this instrument increases, enabling the generation of high-quality intensity maps at 0.945 µm, 1.375 µm and 1.61 µm. Tropomi measures in the ultraviolet and visible (270–500 nm), near-infrared (675–775 nm) and shortwave infrared (2305...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... other firms could also receive a share of the money. Data collected from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on ESA’s Sentinel-5 satellite shows a significant drop of nitrogen dioxide - a gas mainly emitted by cars, trucks, power plants...
