Blue Origin has scrubbed today's launch attempt of its second-ever New Glenn rocket.

The delay today (Nov. 11) follows a Nov. 9 launch attempt that was also called off due to bad weather. Now, extreme solar storms, which spawned aurora borealis as far south as New Glenn's Florida launchpad, have pushed the mission once again.

New Glenn had targeted a 2:50 p.m. EST (1850 GMT) liftoff from Blue Origin's Space Launch Complex-36, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (Nov. 12), to send NASA's twin ESCAPADE orbiters to Mars. "However, due to highly elevated solar activity and its potential effects on the ESCAPADE spacecraft, NASA is postponing launch until space weather conditions improve," Blue Origin wrote in a post on X.

A new ESCAPADE launch date has yet to be announced, but Blue O

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