NASA Continues Efforts to Reestablish Contact with MAVEN at Mars Written 23 March 2026
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Artist concept of NASA Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft near Mars. | Credit: NASA
NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16. As SPACE reports, an “analysis of a fragment of tracking data from the day contact was lost suggests MAVEN was rotating in an unexpected manner as it emerged from behind Mars and was no longer in its planned orbit, according to NASA.”
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