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Ozone Mapping & Profiler Suite 

Improving environmental data records 

OMPS is one of five instruments that launched aboard our Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) spacecraft in 2011. OMPS measures atmospheric ozone and how ozone concentration varies with altitude. It functions like other similar instruments, but provides data with higher fidelity.

OMPS is a three-part instrument: a nadir mapper that will map global ozone with about 50-km ground resolution, a nadir profiler that will measure the vertical distribution of ozone in the stratosphere, and a limb profiler that measures ozone in the lower stratosphere and troposphere with high vertical resolution.

We built a second OMPS flight unit that flies on the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) launched in 2017. This flight unit doesn’t include the limb profiler.

Tower Optical Corporation is proud to be an integral part of this system providing the Substrate Mirror 2, Total Column NADIR Sensor for this system produced by Ball Aerospace in Boulder Colorado.

We thank everyone on the Tower Optical Team who worked diligently alongside Ball Engineering to get this substrate to our customer within budget and on time!