Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch Again Due To Solar Storms

The star activity that’s been lighting up nan nighttime entity crossed North America this week is now causing Jeff Bezos’ abstraction institution to push backmost nan 2nd motorboat of its New Glenn mega-rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Just hours earlier nan scheduled motorboat connected Wednesday, Blue Origin said it is opinionated down from nan effort owed to nan star activity and its “potential effects connected nan ESCAPADE spacecraft” — a Mars-bound subject ngo nan institution is carrying to abstraction for NASA. A caller motorboat day has not yet been announced.

New Glenn’s first motorboat successful January was mostly a successful objection ngo of nan rocket. Blue Origin delayed nan 2nd motorboat aggregate times, though, and nan institution is being cautious since this is nan first clip nan rocket has a commercialized payload onboard.

New Glenn astir took disconnected this past Sunday, but upwind concerns and an errant cruise vessel successful nan formation path, positive immoderate issues pinch nan launchpad equipment, caused nan institution to shelve nan attempt.