As part of its ongoing preparations for the Roman Space Telescope, NASA has installed a key ‘sunblock’ shield designed to protect the telescope from the extreme heat of space. This robust sunshield ensures the telescope can operate effectively in harsh conditions.

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,

Blue Origin scrubbed once again its launch attempt for its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, this time blaming space weather.

The declaration came on Wednesday, December 21, after NASA failed to make contact with the lander across two consecutive attempts, leading the mission team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to conclude that InSight’s solar-powered batteries had run out of energy, a state referred to as “dead bus.”

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.

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