What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...
NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...
MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.
A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN orbiter.
NASA's MAVEN orbiter, a veteran explorer of Mars' atmosphere, fell silent on December 6, 2025, during a routine pass behind the planet. The 70-meter dish at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications ...
NASA has abruptly lost contact with a key spacecraft circling Mars, cutting off a scientific workhorse that has spent years listening to the planet’s thin atmosphere and relaying data from the surface ...