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Sun strikes back! Blue Origin’s NASA mission frozen as Earth hit by severe geomagnetic storm
A massive solar storm has caused the delay of one of the most anticipated rocket launches of the year. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, which was supposed to carry NASA’s twin Mars weather satellites,
ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, this is called a staging or libration orbit. It’s a way to keep the spacecraft on a stable trajectory to wait for the opportunity to go to Mars late next year.
For the second time in five days, NASA on Saturday halted a countdown in progress and postponed a planned attempt to launch the debut test flight of its giant, next-generation rocket, the first mission of the agency's moon-to-Mars Artemis program.