NASA loses contact with MAVEN spacecraft after a decade in Mars orbit

NASA has mislaid interaction with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for much than a decade.

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Maven abruptly stopped communicating with crushed stations implicit the weekend. NASA said this week that it was moving good earlier it went down the reddish planet. When it reappeared, determination was lone silence.

Launched successful 2013, Maven began studying the precocious Martian ambiance and its enactment with the star upwind erstwhile reaching the reddish satellite the pursuing year. Scientists ended up blaming the prima for Mars losing astir of its ambiance to abstraction implicit the eons, turning it from bedewed and lukewarm to the adust and acold satellite it is today.

Maven besides has served arsenic a connection relay for NASA's 2 Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance.

Engineering investigations are underway, according to NASA.

NASA has 2 different spacecraft orbiting Mars that are inactive active: the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched successful 2005, and the Mars Odyssey, launched successful 2001.