NASA Declares Mars MAVEN Mission Over After Six Months of Silence
NASA has officially declared the end of its MAVEN Mars orbiter mission after losing contact with the spacecraft six months ago. The agency stated the mission is in an "unrecoverable state" following a long period of research and attempts to re-establish communication.
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NASA Says Goodbye to its Longtime Mars MAVEN Mission
The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned.
By Katrina Miller
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NASA said on Wednesday it will end its mission studying Mars' atmosphere and evolution after losing contact with its MAVEN spacecraft for six months. MAVEN, which entered Martian orbit in 2014, was designed for a one- to two-year mission but operated for more than a decade before falling silent in December 2025.
By FRANCE 24
Read full article →After six months of silence from Mars probe, NASA to pull plug on mission
MAVEN was intended to operate for one or two years, but the probe remained active for more than a decade, until Dec. 2025 when it lost contact with Earth
By AFP
Read full article →"Unrecoverable State": NASA Declares Mars Mission Over After Long Research
Launched in 2013 to study the red planet's atmosphere from orbit, Maven mysteriously fell silent in early December after passing behind Mars
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