Promising applications for a geostationary constellation of lightning detectors

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The difference in the sizes of coverage areas of geostationary lightning detectors manufactured by specialists from different national space agencies is explained. The creation in the near future of a full-fledged geostationary constellation equipped with such detectors is predicted. New promising tasks for such constellation, not included in the NASA list for a single geostationary detector, have been proposed: monitoring in dual-use systems; using lightning as a source of electromagnetic waves in studies of plasma processes in the ionosphere; planetary monitoring of mega lightning.

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A. L. Filatov

Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Fryazino Branch

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Russian Federation, Fryazino, 141190

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2. Fig. 1. Coverage areas of lightning detectors located on satellites: GOES – West and GOES – East (a); Meteosat 12 (b); FY-4A (c).

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3. Fig. 2. Optical designs of satellites: GOES (a); Meteosat 12 (b); FY-4A (c); folding space telescope with membrane optics (d).

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