TANGO @ Nanosats Database

Name	TANGO
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	12U
Organisation	TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)
Institution	Non-profit
Entity	Government (Civil / Military)
Nation	Netherlands
Manufacturer	AIVT by ISISpace
Operator	ISISpace
Oneliner	Quantify and monitor greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual power plants and industrial facilities
Description	The TANGO mission will consist of two CubeSats, each carrying a TNO Spectrolite instrument. They will provide targeted observations to quantify and monitor greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual power plants and industrial facilities. It’s uniqueness: Open data policy User driven target selection Unprecedented precision to quantify emission CO2, CH4 and NO2 measurement 300x300m2 spatial resolution The targeted monitoring data of TANGO will be highly complimentary to the global observations of Copernicus missions such as Sentinel-5p, Sentinel-5 and CO2M. The TANGO mission will use two Spectrolite instruments to measure: CO2 emissions larger than 5Mt/year, for example from power plants, which in the EU alone represent about 44% of the annual CO2 emission, CH4 emissions larger than 10kt/year, for example from oil & gas installations, landfills, and coal mines, which in the EU alone are estimated to represent about 68% of total methane emissions, and NOx emissions, which will improve the detection of CO2 plumes, deriving historic CO2 emission trends based on readily available global NOx measurements, and to detangle the possible CO2 contribution in mixed CH4 - CO2 The Spectrolite family of instruments was developed using the legacy of technology from the highly successful TROPOMI instrument that is currently operational on the Copernicus Sentinel 5p missions.
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Related Spacecraft

Name	Status	Launch	Orbit
TANGO A (Twin Anthropogenic Greenhouse gas Observers, Nitro)	not launched	2024-12-31	not launched
TANGO B (Twin Anthropogenic Greenhouse gas Observers, Carbon )	not launched	2024-12-31	not launched

Last modified: 2022-12-29
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