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.
