Like 'the loss of a loved one': NASA's Mars orbiter MAVEN is officially dead after months of radio silence

Efforts to communicate with MAVEN since then have been unsuccessful, according to an agency release, and NASA officials held ...
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NASA declared its $582 million MAVEN orbiter dead after the Mars probe went silent for six months

NASA formally ended the MAVEN mission on June 3, 2026, after the Mars orbiter spent roughly six months in total silence. The spacecraft, which cost $582 million and spent more than 11 years studying ...

NASA's Mars MAVEN probe is dead

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicat ...

After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ...
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'Best. Mars. Mission. Ever.': A look at MAVEN's achievements as NASA bids goodbye to spacecraft

NASA has officially ended the MAVEN mission after failing to reestablish contact with the spacecraft.

11 years, 800 papers, and 18% of surface data: NASA bids farewell to silent MAVEN orbiter

NASA has formally begun decommissioning the MAVEN Mars orbiter after 11 years, ending a mission that transformed Mars atmospheric science.
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NASA declares MAVEN, its Mars atmosphere orbiter, dead

Over more than a decade at Mars, the orbiter revealed how the solar wind strips away the planet’s atmosphere — and why the world lost its water.