NASA is putting pause on sending commands to its Mars exploration instruments from November 11 through November 25 as it waits out the Mars solar conjunction. With the sun in the way, any commands sent to Mars could suffer interference capable of harming the robotic explorers.
That’s rather pessimistic but I’m not in a state of mind to have a rebuttal
A school gets shot up, or it doesn’t. Another genocide starts, or it doesn’t. A telescope collapses, or it doesn’t. It gets worse, or it stays the same. Not once in all my life has the evening news been like “This just in: A clean, abundant and inexpensive source of energy has been found which is leading to millions of hungry people being fed. We now go on location to ABC correspondent Tish Yu for the details.”