NASA NTRS · 20230000876
ISS Lightning Imaging Sensor and STP-H8/ASAP Observations
Abstract
What is ISS LIS? - ISS Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) is the flight spare for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) LIS instrument - Modified to work on ISS and launched as part of STP-H5 in February 2017 - Detects lightning (via near-IR 777-nm channel) during both day and night, with storm-scale resolution and globally uniform detection efficiency - Relocated on ISS July 2022, expected to operate thru at least December 2023
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Timothy Lang, Dennis Buechler. ISS Lightning Imaging Sensor and STP-H8/ASAP Observations. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230000876
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