Will NASA be able to restore communication with MAVEN Mars orbiter?

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...
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After a month of no answer, NASA will try hailing its silent MAVEN Mars orbiter today

MAVEN has remained silent since Dec. 6 despite repeated attempts to contact it, according to NASA. As part of the recovery ...
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NASA to Resume Search for Missing Mars Orbiter, But Prospects of Re-establishing Communication With It Seem Slim

Scientists haven't heard from the MAVEN orbiter since December 6. It had been studying the Martian atmosphere for over a ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA races to wake silent MAVEN Mars orbiter after 1 month of ghosting

NASA is spending this week trying to rouse a veteran Mars orbiter that has not answered a single call in more than a month, a ...
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NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

On December 6, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, which has been studying the Red Planet’s ...
SpaceNews

NASA pessimistic about odds of recovering MAVEN

NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more ...
Earth.com

NASA loses contact with one of its key probes orbiting Mars

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected ...
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Mars orbiters track a faint interstellar comet when Earth cannot

When an interstellar comet goes behind the Sun from the Earth’s perspective, science does not hit pause it relocates. In the ...
AOL

NASA loses contact with critical Mars orbiter MAVEN

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars for over a decade. MAVEN, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, ...
Newsday

NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this ...
NBC Connecticut

A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars may be dead

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...