International Space Station Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) Principal Investigator Richard Blakeslee and members of the Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC are in this issue of the GOES-R (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series) Series Quarterly Newsletter, covering Oct - Dec 2015! See feature on p. 3 “Proving Ground and Program Science” at
http://www.goes-r.gov/resources/newsletters/docs/GOES-R_Q42015.pdf
"During December 1-15, GHRC DAAC staff and the MSFC Lightning Science Team supported a Payload Rack Checkout Unit (PRCU) for ISS LIS and other instruments in the DoD STP-H5 (Space Test Program-Houston 5) package. The ISS-LIS will be flown as a hosted payload on the STP-H5 mission, which is scheduled for launch in summer 2016 aboard a SpaceX launch vehicle for a 2-4 year or longer mission. In this test we received simulated LIS observations, instrument housekeeping data, ISS ephemeris and Star Tracker data, verifying data ingest networks and software."
Find more about lightning research and data at https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/projects/lightning
