SLS has deployed Jupiter OLS and Jupiter TMS systems at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to monitor critical NASA, NOAA, and Orbital ATK launch vehicles and payloads. In addition, SLS engineers have been instrumental in the design and testing of the state-of-the-art lightning monitoring systems and sensors that will be installed to monitor NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule. Learn more about the specific applications of our leading-edge lightning and transient monitoring capabilities.
Orbital ATK recently launched the CYGNSS hurricane monitoring satellite using a Pegasus XL rocket. The Pegasus XL rocket is an air-launched vehicle that is secured to the fuselage of an L-1011 aircraft.
Learn MoreSLS was tasked by the NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) to provide lightning monitoring services for Launch Complex 41 (LC-41), where the Atlas V family of vehicles are launched.
Learn MoreThe GOES-R satellite was recently launched to provide next-generation weather and lightning observations from space. SLS deployed a Jupiter TMS system to provide continuous transient monitoring services for the sensitive GOES-R satellite while it was being prepared for launch atop an...
Learn MoreSLS was instrumental in the design and testing of the lightning and transient monitoring instrumentation that will be installed inside NASA’s state-of-the-art Orion crew capsule. The Orion crew capsule will ferry astronauts to deep space atop NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket.
Learn MoreSLS engineers helped design and test the instrumentation, sensors, and mechanical hardware that were used to construct the lightning monitoring systems on NASA’s Mobile Launch Tower.
Learn MoreSLS was tasked by Space Florida and Orbital ATK to provide precision lightning and transient monitoring for the Minotaur IV rocket and ORS-5 payload prior to launch from Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Learn MoreSLS engineers worked with the NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) to deploy a Jupiter Portable Lightning Instrumentation (PLI) System within the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 41.
Learn MoreSLS worked with the NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) to deploy a lightning and transient monitoring system to support continuous lightning surveillance during the pre-launch and launch phases of the $655.5 million JPSS-1 mission (Joint Polar Satellite System).
Learn MoreSLS designed and deployed a state-of-the-art lightning monitoring system for the NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) to provide precision lightning detection, location, and characterization for the Parker Solar Probe mission, which launched on August 12th, 2018 from Delta Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Learn MoreSLS engineers installed two Jupiter OLS high-speed video lightning monitoring systems at the John C. Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi. The Jupiter OLS systems will provide vital lightning monitoring for the B2 rocket engine test stand.
Learn MoreNASA’s ICON payload, carrying an array of instruments to collect images of the ionosphere and measure characteristics of the space environment, departed from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip in early November aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL air-launched vehicle.
Learn MoreSLS worked with the NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) to deploy a lightning and transient monitoring system to support continuous lightning surveillance during the pre-launch and launch phases of the $1 billion ICESat-2 mission at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Learn MoreThe SLS Team has many decades of lightning monitoring, lightning protection, and lightning testing experience. We apply state-of-the-art lightning research to engineering solutions.
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