NASA Rocket, With Cool Name, Scheduled for Launch Wednesday Night
NASA Rocket, With Cool Name, Scheduled for Launch Wednesday Night VIPER ( Experiment Rocket) will be studying, "radio waves that escape through the Earth’s ionosphere impacting the environment surrounding GPS and geosynchronous satellites, such as those for weather monitoring and communications," according to the space agency. Get our free mobile app They say, VIPER is studying very low frequency radio, or VLF, waves that are produced by both natural (e.g. lightning) and artificial means. During the day these waves are trapped or absorbed by the Earth’s ionosphere. At night, however, som...