Blue Origin has again postponed the second launch of its New Glenn megarocket. This time, it wasn’t bad weather or a wayward cruise ship that got in the way—it was an ongoing severe geomagnetic storm.

Last night, the arrival of two coronal mass ejections —huge eruptions of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun’s surface—triggered dazzling auroras as far south as Alabama. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a G4—or “severe”—geomagnetic storm watch through Wednesday, as another larger CME is expected to reach Earth around midday.

New Glenn was set to lift off no earlier than 2:50 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, according to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center . It’s worth noting that the Federal Aviation Administration recent

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