The MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere) instrument was launched on NASA’s Terra Flagship Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite on December 18th, 1999 and has made measurements of carbon monoxide in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) on a global basis almost continuously for the twenty (20) years since then. Terra is flying in a polar-sun-synchronous orbit (altitude 750Km) with equator crossing at 10:30 UT. MOPITT with its cross-track scan (swath of 700Km) can do an almost complete coverage of the Earth’s surface in about 3 days (individual pixels cover 22KmX22Km).

    On October 6, 2018 Terra completed 100,000 orbits around Earth.

The figure below shows the global monthly averaged of CO total column (units 10^18 mol/cm^3), retrieved during day, on 1X1 grid for September 2017, so 19 years after launch ! 

The MOPITT instrument was designed by Dr. Jim Drummond and the MOPITT team at the University of Toronto.

The MOPITT instrument was build by COM DEV of Cambridge Ontario and ABB BOMEM, Quebec City, Quebec; CANADA

The processing of MOPITT data is carried out by the MOPITT support team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO, US

The instrument control and maintenace is carred out by MOPITT team at the Universy of Toronto, CANADA

The MOPITT project is funded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The MOPITT data analysis is funded by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science (CFCAS).
The Terra mission is funded and supported by NASA.