{"id":137143,"date":"2025-11-13T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137143\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:18:16","slug":"solar-storms-delay-launch-of-blue-origins-big-new-rocket-with-mars-orbiters-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137143\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar storms delay launch of Blue Origin&#8217;s big new rocket with Mars orbiters for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; Intense <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/northern-lights-aurora-forecast-d902060f09341468bcc3ef1459c50bdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">solar storms<\/a> responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. delayed the launch of Blue Origin\u2019s big new rocket Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Already grounded by poor weather, the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-jeff-bezos-2466fb0e114a09d88a46f71a1e647d50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Glenn rocket<\/a> was poised to blast off Wednesday afternoon with two Mars orbiters for NASA from Florida. But five hours before the targeted liftoff, it was called off because of the heightened solar activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Worried about the possible impact of increased radiation on its <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mars-nasa-perseverance-rover-rock-life-4e608d530be598c1a7af959d97eb88d8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mars-bound spacecraft<\/a>, NASA decided to postpone the launch until conditions improve. No new launch date was set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This will be only the second flight of a New Glenn rocket, which made its debut in January. At 321 feet (98 meters), it is considerably larger and more powerful than the New Shepard rockets Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin is launching from Texas with passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; Intense solar storms responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. delayed the launch of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[79325,1597,1595,61,60,82,247,64491,28600,80,1596],"class_list":{"0":"post-137143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-79325","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-space-launches","16":"tag-spacecraft","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}