The purpose of the activity was to expand monitoring capabilities to regions where observations of atmospheric constituents are scarce and provide the ozone science community with a unique set of data from a geographically relevant region of the world. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the completion of the activity was extended from 30 April 2020 to 30 June 2021.

The first launch of the project was carried out on 6 March 2020 in the presence of Government officials and university authorities. While launches were discontinued between 16 March 2020 and the end of May 2020 owing to the pandemic lockdown, a total of 28 ozone sonde launches took place from March 2020 to July 2021. According to the final project report four additional ozone sondes were planned to be launched after the project completion from August to September of 2021. Furthermore, it was reported that collaboration with NASA SHADOZ (Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozone sondes) had been established which would ensure the continuity of the ECHOZ sounding in Quito for four more years from September 2021 to 2024. Through that collaboration, Ecuador would also begin launching ozone sondes starting from the Galapagos campus. Two papers were prepared, Cazorla et.al. (2020) and Cazorla M. (2021), and more analyses  were reported to be on the way.