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NASA's MAVEN Mars mission spacecraft officially declared dead after months of radio silence

An iconic spacecraft orbiting Mars has entered its final days after more than a decade of service. But the mission was only ...
Morning Overview on MSN

China pulled its Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission forward to 2028

China’s space agency has locked in a 2028 launch date for Tianwen-3, its first Mars sample-return mission, with plans to ...
Scientific American

NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

NASA Officially Ends the MAVEN Mission Months After Losing Contact With the Mars Orbiter

The agency last heard from the spacecraft on December 6. Recovered fragmentary data suggest that MAVEN was spinning ...
Astronomy

NASA fails to reestablish contact, decommissions MAVEN

After six months of silence and a failed recovery effort, NASA has officially ended the MAVEN mission. The fragmented ...

NASA's Mars MAVEN Probe Is Dead

NASA has declared that the MAVEN mission has ended after losing contact with its probe six months ago.

SpaceX is planning a human mission to Mars with a familiar face

SpaceX tapped cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang to lead a private crewed mission around Mars and the moon. Here's everything to know (so far).