NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter while the vehicle was on the planet’s far side, and teams are working to restore communications. MAVEN — which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary in Mars orbit and is central to studies of atmospheric escape — went silent over the weekend.
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MAVEN has operated at Mars for more than a decade; losing contact risks gaps in its long-running atmospheric-escape dataset and ongoing science time series. See the broader warning about preserving long-running planetary missions: scientists' warning about losing spacecraft receivers.
Contact dropped while MAVEN was on Mars’ far side; recovery depends on upcoming line-of-sight opportunities and highlights limits of current deep‑space comms — context for NASA's interest in higher-bandwidth optical links: NASA laser-communication demo shows promise for Mars missions.
The incident arrives alongside recent spacecraft losses and funding pressure for science missions, underscoring operational and programmatic risk to aging planetary assets: recent mission loss at Venus and concerns over shrinking NASA science funding.
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Space Ops: NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Falls Silent At Mars • Aviation Week
(FR) Mars: NASA loses contact with MAVEN • air-cosmos.com
NASA Loses Contact with MAVEN Mars Orbiter After More Than a Decade of Science • news.ssbcrack.com
NASA Loses Contact with MAVEN Mars Orbiter; Recovery Effort Underway • The Independent
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter after 10 years in orbit • orlandosentinel.com
NASA Loses Contact with MAVEN Mars Orbiter; Expected Check-in Missed on Dec. 6 • Scientific American
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