Nasa loses contact with spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade
Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekendNasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link.Maven abruptly...
<p>Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/nasa">Nasa</a> has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link.</p><p>Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. Nasa said this week that it was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared, there was only silence. “Telemetry showed all subsystems working normally before it orbited behind [Mars],” Nasa said in a <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/2025/12/09/nasa-teams-work-maven-spacecraft-signal-loss/">statement</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/10/nasa-loses-contact-maven-spacecraft-mars">Continue reading...</a>
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