NASA Declares Mars Maven Spacecraft Dead After Six Months of Silence
NASA has officially declared the MAVEN Mars orbiter lost after six months of radio silence. The $582 million mission, which launched in 2013 to study the Martian atmosphere, failed to reestablish communication following a scheduled occultation on December 6, 2025. Agency officials confirmed the spacecraft is unrecoverable and the mission has ended. The Silence Following … Read more