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NASA loses contact with spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for over a decade

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) was first launched in November 2013 NASA announced that the agency lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) ...
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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars may be dead

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for ...
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A NASA orbiter around Mars suffered an abrupt demise

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA will begin to decommission Maven, a Mars orbiter, which unexpectedly went silent in December 2025 after more than a decade ...

Scientists Just Tested a Thruster Powerful Enough for Human Missions to Mars

NASA’s new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use ...