
The Air Force could release in February its final request for proposals (RFP) for a program that is slated to accommodate a NASA earth science instrument as a hosted payload on commercial spacecraft, according to a service official. Air Force Lt. Col. Mark Brykowytch said Wednesday the service is also looking at putting out another draft RFP, the second for “TEMPO,” out in November. NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) program will measure the atmospheric pollution covering most of…