MAVEN Telemetry Reveals Changes to Spacecraft Orbit and Rotation Written 16 December 2025
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Artist Concept of MAVEN at Mars. | NASA
Space News reports, “New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch. NASA said Dec. 9 that it lost contact with the spacecraft three days earlierafter MAVEN failed to resume communications following a pass behind Mars as viewed from Earth. At the time, the agency provided few details and did not indicate the problem extended beyond the spacecraft’s communications systems.”
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