A dataset provided by the European Space Agency

Name LSO 1 - Lightning and Sprites Observations 1
Operational Nomenclature LSO 1
URL https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/investigation;investigationAcronym=LSO1_ISS
DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-dspn400
Platform ISS
HRE-E3P Category Physical Sciences
Mission Inc03
Keywords ESA Human and Robotic Exploration data, HREDA dataset, Human and Robotic Exploration Data Archive, ESA exploration mission data, human spaceflight experiment data, robotic exploration telemetry dataset, International Space Station experiment data, ISS Columbus module data, microgravity research dataset, life sciences space experiment data, space physiology measurements dataset, radiation exposure measurements spaceflight, life support systems performance data, closed-loop environmental control data, ECLSS telemetry dataset, astronaut biomedical monitoring data, space habitat systems engineering data, robotic surface operations dataset, planetary exploration robotics data, lunar exploration technology demonstration data, Mars analog experiment dataset, in-situ resource utilization ISRU experiment data, space systems engineering telemetry, mission operations engineering data, payload performance dataset, calibrated experiment data products, time-series telemetry data, spaceflight sensor measurements, ESA exploration science archive data, long-duration spaceflight research dataset
Team Coordinator Name Elisabeth Blanc
Version 1.0
Team Members LSO1_ISS
Publication T Farges, Elisabeth Blanc, 2003, Is there a sprite signature in the lightning data of LIS? A comparison of the LSO and LIS data, Proceedings of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, France

Elisabeth Blanc, F Lefeuvre, JL Pincon, 2008, The Taranis microsatellite Project, 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 13-20 July 2008, Montréal, Canada, , 314

Jack JWA van Loon, Francisco Javier Medina, Hilde Stenuit, Eric Istasse, Marc Heppener, Roberto Marco, 2007, The National-ESA Soyuz missions Andromède, Marco Polo, Odissea, Cervantes, DELTA and Eneide, Microgravity Science and Technology, 19, 5-6, 9-32, DOI: 10.1007/BF02919448

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, D Brebion, AN Belyaev, VV Alpatov, A Labarthe, V Melnikov, 2007, Main results of LSO (Lightning and sprite observations) on board of the International Space Station, Microgravity Science and Technology, 19, 5-6, 80-84, DOI: 10.1007/BF02919458

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, D Brebion, A Labarthe, V Melnikov, 2006, Observations of Sprites from Space at the Nadir: The LSO (Lightning and Sprite Observations) Experiment on board of the International Space Station, NATO Science Series, 225, 151-166, DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4629-4_7

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, R Rocha, D Brebion, T Hua, A Labarthe, V Melnikov, 2004, Nadir observations of sprites from the International Space Station, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, A02306, DOI: 10.1029/2003JA009972

HJ Christian, RJ Blakeslee, DJ Boccippio, WL Boeck, DE Buechler, KT Driscoll, SJ Goodman, JM Hall, WJ Koshak, DM Mach, MF Stewart, 2003, Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space by the Optical Transient Detector, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 4005, DOI:10.1029/2002JD002347

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, R Rocha, 2003, Lightning and sprite observations on board of the International Space Station, Proceedings of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, France

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, R Rocha, D Brebion, T Hua, 2003, Lightning and sprites observations on board of the International Space Station, Proceedings of the International Conference of Atmospheric Electricity

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, R Rocha, 2003, The microsatellite project Taranis, Proceedings of the International Union of Geophysic and Geomagnetism (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, R Rocha, 2002, Lightning and sprite observations on board of the International Space Station, Proceedings of International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Maastricht, The Netherlands

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, R Rocha, D Brebion, T Hua, 2002, Observations of Lightning and sprites at the nadir from the International Space Station, Proceedings COSPAR 2002, Houston, USA

Elisabeth Blanc, T Farges, R Rocha, 2002, Lightning and sprite observations on board of the International Space Station, Proceedings of the European Geophysical Society Conference, Nice, France

Torsten Neubert, TH Allin, H Stenbaek-Nielsen, Elisabeth Blanc, 2001, Sprites over Europe, Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 18, 3585-3588

G Milikh, JA Valdivia, K Papadopoulos, 1998, Spectrum of Red sprites, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 60, 907-915

R Roussel-Dupré, E Symbalisty, Y Taranenko, V Yukhimuk, 1998, Simulations of high altitude discharges initiated by runaway breakdown, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 60, 7-9, 917-940, DOI:10.1016/S1364-6826(98)00028-5

JR Winckler, WA Lyons, TE Nelson, RJ Nemzek, 1996, New high-resolution ground-based studies of sprites, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, D3, 6997-7004, doi:10.1029/95JD03443

DD Sentman, EM Wescott, DL Osborne, DL Hampton, MJ Heavner, 1995, Red Sprites, Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 10, 1205-1208

WL Boeck, OH Vaughan Jr., RJ Blakeslee, B Vonnegut, M Brook, J McKune, 1995, Observations of lightning in the stratosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 1465-1475, doi:10.1029/94JD02432

BN Turman, 1977, Detection of Lightning Superbolts, Journal of Geophysical Research, 82, C18, 2566-2568, doi:10.1029/JC082i018p02566
Temporal Coverage 2001-08-13T00:00:00Z/2001-12-07T00:00:00Z
Mission Description The HRE Data Archive (HREDA) collects information and data of investigations funded or co-funded by ESA’s Directorate for Human and Robotic Exploration (HRE) and performed on microgravity and ground-based facilities since 1972.
Creator Contact https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/help/contact
Date Published 2025-11-07T19:33:16Z
Last Update 2026-07-09
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Elisabeth Blanc, 2025, 'LSO 1', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-dspn400
Rights Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license.