Ball Aerospace Ships Pollution Monitoring Instrument To Spacecraft Manufacturer For Integration Ball completed the TEMPO instrument in 2018 Broomfield, CO /PRNewswire/ - Ball Aerospace shipped NASA's Tropospheric Emission: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer, an air quality monitoring instrument, to the spacecraft manufacturer for integration. Ball will continue to work closely with NASA and the manufacturer to support spacecraft integration and testing. The TEMPO mission is scheduled to launch in 2022. "TEMPO is an apt name for this instrument, as it will make hourly daytime measurements of major air pollutants across North America," said Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, vice president and general manager, Civil Space, Ball Aerospace. "This rapid tempo of measurements will advance our understanding pollution in the atmosphere – from Mexico City to Canada and from coast to coast."