NASA MAVEN Orbiter Goes Silent After Anomaly — Communication Lost With Earth
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NASA confirmed the loss of communication with the MAVEN probe, one of the most important scientific orbiters around March. The contact was interrupted on 6 December 2025, raising doubts about...
NASA MAVEN Orbiter Goes Silent After Anomaly — Communication Lost With Earth
A silent, decade-long vigil over the Martian sky has been broken. One of NASA's most reliable eyes in the cosmos, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter, has suddenly gone dark. After years of transmitting groundbreaking data about the Red Planet's vanishing atmosphere, the veteran spacecraft is now adrift, having been struck by an 'unknown anomaly' that severed its communication with Earth on Dec. 6. This loss of contact wit…
Maven stays silent after routine pass behind Mars
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 NASA engineers are continuing efforts to restore contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter after the spacecraft fell silent during a routine pass behind Mars on December 6 2025. Before the loss of signal, telemetry from MAVEN indicated that the spacecraft and its subsystems were operating within expected parameters as it approached occultation by the planet. A
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