Promising Applications for a Geostationary Constellation of Lightning Detectors

The author explains the difference between the areas covered by geostationary lightning detectors manufactured by specialists from different national space agencies. The creation in the near future of a full-fledged geostationary constellation equipped with such detectors is predicted. Promising new tasks are proposed for such a constellation not included in NASA’s list for a single geostationary detector: monitoring dual-use systems, using lightning as a source of electromagnetic waves in studying plasma processes in the ionosphere, and planetary monitoring of mega lightning.