Tango mission NO2 End-to-end simulator

Mirna van Hoek; Pepijn Veefkind; Jochen Landgraf; Antje Ludewig; Benjamin Leune; Edward van Amelrooy; Tobias Borsdorff; Raul Laasner; Richard van Hees; Ryan Cooney; Karin Louzada; Nurcan Alpay Koc; Bryan de Groejj; Hugo Denier van der Gron; Zeger de Groot; Cecilla Marasini

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-21363

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EGU26-21363, updated on 14 Mar 2026

https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-21363

EGU General Assembly 2026

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Poster | Wednesday, 06 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST), Display time Wednesday, 06 May, 14:00–18:00

Hall X5, X5.81

Tango mission NO2 End-to-end simulator

Mirna van Hoek¹, Pepijn Veefkind¹, Jochen Landgraf², Antje Ludewig¹, Benjamin Leune¹, Edward van Amelrooy¹, Tobias Borsdorff², Raul Laasner², Richard van Hees², Ryan Cooney², Karin Louzada², Nurcan Alpay Koc³, Bryan de Groejj³, Hugo Denier van der Gron³, Zeger de Groot⁴, and Cecilla Marasini⁴

Mirna van Hoek et al.

¹Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), de Bilt, NL
²SRON Space Research Organisation Netherlands, Leiden,NL
³TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Delft, NL
⁴ISISPACE Innovative Solutions in Space, Delft, NL

Tango consists of two CubeSat platforms, Tango-Carbon and Tango-Nitro, flying in formation.

NO2, while not a greenhouse gas itself, can serve as a constraint on CO2 emissions, because both NO2 and CO2 are frequently co-emitted from similar combustion processes. Due to the low atmospheric background concentration of NO2 better detection of CO2 emission plumes is possible.
Analysis of NO2 levels provides additional information about the magnitude of CO2 emissions.

Detector requirements of the Nitro and Carbon instruments are analyzed using The Tango End-to-end simulator. It consists of a suite of modules that address all aspects of the mission data flow.

In this contribution we will describe the NO2 branch of the simulator.

How to cite: van Hoek, M., Veefkind, P., Landgraf, J., Ludewig, A., Leune, B., van Amelrooy, E., Borsdorff, T., Laasner, R., van Hees, R., Cooney, R., Louzada, K., Alpay Koc, N., de Groejj, B., van der Gron, H. D., de Groot, Z., and Marasini, C.: Tango mission NO2 End-to-end simulator, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-21363, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-21363, 2026.