New Delhi: NASA has lost contact with one of its spacecraft in orbit around Mars. According to a statement from NASA, “NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, in orbit around Mars, experienced a loss of signal with ground stations on Earth on Dec. 6. Telemetry from MAVEN had showed all subsystems working normally before it orbited behind the Red Planet. After the spacecraft emerged from behind Mars, NASA’s Deep Space Network did not observe a signal. The spacecraft and operations teams are investigating the anomaly to address the situation. More information will be shared once it becomes available.”

The MAVEN orbiter was launched in 2013, and entered into orbit around Mars in 2014. The goal of the mission is to monitor and characterise the tenuous upper atmosp

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