NASA is setting up an anomaly review board to look into the fate of its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, which was last heard from on December 6. Attempts to make contact ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in December 2025 after more than a decade of operation. A solar conjunction, where Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the sun, has temporarily ...

WASHINGTON — NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more than a month. NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or ...

WASHINGTON — New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch. NASA said Dec. 9 that it lost contact with the spacecraft three ...

This could be the end of the orbiter that studies the Red Planet’s atmosphere and relays communications between NASA and its Mars rovers. Reading time 2 minutes Last week, NASA revealed that it lost ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, launched in 2013 from Florida, studies the upper atmosphere of Mars to understand its ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said ...

There are currently seven spacecraft orbiting Mars, three of which belong to NASA. They’re designed to study the hostile planet’s geology, atmosphere, and radiation, while also supporting missions on ...

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Yeoman Third Class Richard Romero, assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 10, completes paperwork on the computer. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Ashley Guire) The two systems ...