NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for past decade

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

NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...
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Report identifies science objectives of human Mars exploration

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

NASA loses contact with Mars orbiter MAVEN

NASA has lost contact with MAVEN, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than 11 years and one of only three ...

NASA rover detects electric discharges like 'mini-sonic booms' on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

Lower-cost space missions like NASA's ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science, but at a risk

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

New report outlines science priorities for human Mars exploration

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...
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NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter

One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to ...

After 11 years in the orbit, NASA loses signal with Mars orbiter "MAVEN"

NASA confirms Mars orbiter MAVEN went offline. Engineers analyse the spacecraft, using other orbiters as backups to maintain ...
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NASA’s latest Mars mission could reveal why the red planet dried out

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a ...

NASA loses contact with MAVEN spacecraft after a decade in Mars orbit

NASA loses contact with MAVEN spacecraft after a decade of studying Mars, prompting investigations into the sudden ...

NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend.