RISING 2

About

Raijin-2 (Rising-2) is a Japanese micro-satellite launched in 2014. The satellite is built around a 10 cm diameter, 1m focal length Cassegrain telescope and features the following instruments:HPT - main telescope with 5m resolution at nadir, operating in visible and near-infrared bands BOL - bolometer array camera for cloud temperature measurement WFC - wide field-of-view CCD camera LSI-N and LSI-W - 2 CMOS medium field-of-view cameras for near-infrared imaging VLF-ANT, R - radio antenna to receive signatures of lighting events