Nov. 9 (UPI) — Blue Origin scrubbed its launch of the New Glenn rocket into low-Earth orbit Sunday, with a pair of Mars-bound satellites on board, because of bad weather rolling through the area.<\/p>\n
The launch of the company’s second New Glenn rocket into low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida was scrubbed minutes before liftoff after two holds.<\/p>\n
The scheduled launch was pushed back several times as the weather shifted for several hours prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n
The launch window, which opened at 2:45 p.m. EDT on Sunday, officially closed at 4:13 p.m. EST. The company had pushed liftoff back to 4:12:30 p.m. until a giant bank of cumulus clouds formed in the rocket’s flight path and forced engineers to scrub the mission.<\/p>\n
Blue Origin said the launch was tentatively rescheduled for Monday at about 2 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n
“While options to launch on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 are available, Blue Origin will need special FAA approval due to new restrictions that take effect on Nov. 10, due to the government shutdown,” Space.com reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said earlier this weekend that, with air traffic controller towers understaffed<\/a> during the federal government shutdown<\/a>, the FAA is restricting commercial rocket launches to between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. to limit airspace restrictions that are required missions to space.<\/p>\n While the weather remained an issue throughout the countdown and the launch was put on hold several times, flight controllers were also having trouble reaching the captain of a cruise boat that had traveled into the safety perimeter around the launch area.<\/p>\n The Blue Origin Mars mission, carrying a pair of ESCAPADE Mars probes<\/a> on the partially reusable New Glenn rocket<\/a>, had already been delayed for a year by fueling and other engineering issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 9 (UPI) — Blue Origin scrubbed its launch of the New Glenn rocket into low-Earth orbit Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6086,49,48,21146,66],"class_list":["post-273250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-blue-origin","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}