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Blue Origin was set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon, but a series of issues stymied the attempt.

A pod of pelicans fly past as New Glenn NG-2 sits in the pad at Launch Complex 36A at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, as the launch is scrubbed, on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel) Shore birds fly past the New Glenn NG-2 sits in the pad at Launch Complex 36A at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, as the launch is scrubbed, on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel) New Glenn NG-2 sits in the pad at Launch Complex 36A at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, as the launch is scrubbed, on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel) Blue Origin’s New Glenn sits on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36 ahead of the planned NG-2 launch. (Courtesy/Blue Origin)

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1 of 4 A pod of pelicans fly past as New Glenn NG-2 sits in the pad at Launch Complex 36A at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, as the launch is scrubbed, on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel)

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The heavy-lift rocket was aiming for its second ever liftoff, but was put in a weather hold for most of the launch window that ran from 2:45-4:13 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36.

Weather was clear at 3:45 p.m. but teams then announced they were working an issue on the pad with the ground systems, but with the countdown clock rolling in the hopes they could get the rocket off in the final minute of the window.

A late poll was go pending solution of that problem, but there was some sort of range violation by a cruise ship, with the Coast Guard trying to contact the vessel, although it was unclear which ship was in violation.

With just under five minutes left on the countdown clock, though, the launch was out on hold again, because of a violation of the cumulus cloud rule, according to Blue Origin. read more