Space Ops: NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Falls Silent At Mars

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An ultraviolet view of Mars captured by NASA’s Maven spacecraft in July 2022.

Credit: NASA/LASP/CU Boulder
NASA is assessing a troubling loss of signal from a Mars orbiter that has spent the last 11 years gathering data on how the planet most like Earth in the Solar System lost its atmosphere. The spacecraft, known as MAVEN, also provides a critical communications relay link for NASA’s two surface rovers...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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