NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds

NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13. The atmospheric features SEED is studying are known as Sporadic-E layers, […]
Posted on June 12, 2025
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

1
2
37
1
18
29
10
15
349
43
6
2
14
1
1
Io
4
1
10
2
57
189
3
1
9
1
2
6
11
9
5
2
2
1
1
336
1
3
1
2
14
1
613
11
7
51
24
140
13
6
1
3
3
253
1
6
1
4
10
4
215
12
1
11
1
29
1
188
1
4
2
93
2
3
3
1
10
6
18
1
1
4

Blog Posts

Newsletter Archive