When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December ...

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NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ...

The spacecraft in orbit around Mars lost signal with the ground stations despite the last contact showing that it had ...

The spacecraft was operating normally just before it went behind Mars, NASA confirmed this week; tragically, only silence ...

NASA is probing a sudden loss of contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter after rare 3I/ATLAS data, raising questions about timing ...

Maven also has served as a communication relay for NASA's two Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance. Engineering ...

MAVEN is therefore pretty important to ongoing Mars operations, and working out why it dropped out of communication may help ...

NASA announced that it lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft after it orbited ...

A communication blackout temporarily silenced NASA's MAVEN orbiter, a crucial source of data on Mars' atmosphere. Engineers are working to recover the ...

NASA's Maven spacecraft, which studied Mars' atmosphere and relayed communications for rovers, has lost contact after a decade in orbit. The silence began after it went behind the planet.