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

NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter falls silent

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

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

"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

NASA announces end of long-operating Mars probe's mission

NASA ends Maven mission after more than decade orbiting Mars

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead. The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a de...