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The Wind Spacecraft (http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/wind/) is part of a group of satellites that are constantly measuring the magnetosphere and the interplanetary space environment near the Earth. Since study of the solar wind is one of the important tasks of this satellite it was given the name "Wind". It has an orbit which often takes it between the Earth and the Sun out beyond the extent of the Earth's magnetosphere where it can measure the solar wind coming toward the Earth.

This spacecraft has a radio instrument called WAVES that has multiple functions, but includes radio measurements using a radio receiver called RAD2 that picks up radio waves in the frequencies from 1.075 MHz to 13.825 MHz. Although this does not go up to the 20.1 MHz frequency that we use in standard Radio JOVE kit receivers, we can look at the radio storms received by this instrument and sometimes see that these storms are likely to extend upwards in frequency such that they could be picked up at 20 MHz.