NASA Fails to Reestablish Contact, Decommissions MAVEN

NASA fails to reestablish contact, decommissions MAVEN

NASA has ended its attempts to reconnect with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft and begun decommissioning the orbiter, closing the book on a mission that spent over a decade studying how Mars lost its atmosphere. At a June 3 media conference, NASA officials announced that an anomaly review board — which wasContinue reading "NASA fails to reestablish contact, decommissions MAVEN" The post NASA fails to reestablish cont…

NASA's MAVEN Mars Mission spacecraft officially declared dead after months of radio silence

An iconic spacecraft orbiting Mars has entered its final days after more than a decade of service. But the mission was only supposed to last a year.The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) Mission was the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.Following 11 years of service providing tons of data to experts, NASA officials said farewell to the spacecraft after it experienced an unexpected loss of signal when…