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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.

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NASA officially ends Mars mission after 12 years in orbit

A routine pass behind Mars marked the end of an era for one of NASA’s most important space missions. After more than a decade orbiting the Red Planet and delivering groundbreaking insights into its atmosphere,

NASA announces end of long-operating Mars probe's mission

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - NASA announced on Tuesday the end of the mission of its MAVEN spacecraft, which spent more than 11 years orbiting Mars to study the atmosphere of Earth's planetary neighbor,
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NASA Officially Ends the MAVEN Mission Months After Losing Contact With the Mars Orbiter

The agency last heard from the spacecraft on December 6. Recovered fragmentary data suggest that MAVEN was spinning unexpectedly, hinting at a change in its trajectory and draining its batteries
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NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet

After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ground teams didn’t hear from the spacecraft when it was supposed to regain contact with Earth.

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NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter goes silent

NASA on Wednesday announced that its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission has ended, almost half a year after scientists last heard from the spacecraft. All systems were working normally before MAVEN’s passage behind Mars in December,

NASA officially ends MAVEN Mars mission after losing contact with spacecraft

NASA has officially ended the MAVEN mission after determining the Mars orbiter is no longer recoverable. The spacecraft, which studied the Martian atmosphere for more than 11 years, lost contact in December 2025 and is now being formally decommissioned.

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