{"id":278523,"date":"2025-11-12T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:31:07","slug":"blue-origin-delays-second-new-glenn-launch-again-due-to-solar-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278523\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch again due to solar storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The solar activity that\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/12\/science\/space\/northern-lights-photos-geomagnetic-storm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lighting up the night sky across North America<\/a> this week is now causing Jeff Bezos\u2019 space company to push back the second launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just hours before the scheduled launch on Wednesday, Blue Origin <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/blueorigin\/status\/1988621902881914961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> it is standing down from the attempt due to the solar activity and its \u201cpotential effects on the ESCAPADE spacecraft\u201d \u2014 a Mars-bound science mission the company is carrying to space for NASA. A new launch date has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Glenn\u2019s first launch in January was mostly a successful demonstration mission of the rocket. Blue Origin delayed the second launch multiple times, though, and the company is being cautious since this is the first time the rocket has a commercial payload onboard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Glenn nearly took off this past Sunday, but weather concerns and an errant cruise ship in the flight path, plus some issues with the launchpad equipment, caused the company to shelve the attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The solar activity that\u2019s been lighting up the night sky across North America this week is now causing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6086,49,48,6088,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-278523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-blue-origin","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-new-glenn","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278523","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=278523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}