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NASA plans hosted payload to monitor air pollution

Submit on Monday, November 12th, 2012 22:57

NASA has selected a proposal from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to build the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent hourly during daytime. The instrument, to be completed in 2017 at a cost of not more than US$90 million, will share a ride on a commercial geostationary satellite as a hosted payload.
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