NASA loses contact with Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade Science Dec 10, 2025 4:02 PM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 week that it was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared, there was only silence.

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Launched in 2013, Maven began studying the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind once reaching the red planet

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