Acknowledgements
ISS LIS resulted from and with several key partnerships. The ISS Program
Research Integration Office (PRIO) at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)
provided funding for development, launch and integration of LIS. The ISS
PRIO also funded the DoD Space Test Program (STP) to add LIS to the
STP-H5 Payload. The NASA Science Mission Directorate Earth Science
Division initially leveraged TRMM LIS science funding to cover ISS LIS
science, and then transitioned this support in 2017 to the Earth from
ISS program. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) partnered with
University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) to prepare the spare LIS for ISS,
which included building the new Interface Unit (IFU), and MSFC partnered
with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to build key fiber optic harnesses
for LIS. The LIS Science Team gratefully acknowledges the productive
science and operations collaborations between MSFC, UAH, STP,
Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and the ISS Payload
Operations Integration Center. ISS-LIS and STP-5 were launched to the
ISS from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) after integration onto a SpaceX
rocket. ISS LIS data are available from the GHRC DAAC via the Digital
Object Identifiers (DOIs) listed in the Blakeslee [2019a-d]
references. Extensive user support services, including Python-based
recipes to analyze ISS LIS data, are also available [GHRC ,
2020]. Anonymous reviewers and Earle Williams are thanked for their
comments and suggestions to improve the manuscript.