{"id":51073,"date":"2025-12-11T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51073"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:54:31","slug":"nasa-loses-contact-with-its-maven-spacecraft-orbiting-mars-for-the-past-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51073","title":{"rendered":"NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212;&nbsp;NASA has lost contact with a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/national-national-general-news-ba1d5e69cc1f4d66b90576be91d0794f\">spacecraft that has orbited Mars<\/a>&nbsp;for more than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/national-a5fcfcd8673e474597f034e087a6f60c\">Maven<\/a>&nbsp;abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working fine before it went behind&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-news-ap-top-news-mars-planets-ca-state-wire-0a25f845c0954351a759c511d33f13e3\">the red planet<\/a>. When it reappeared, there was only silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Launched in 2013, Maven began studying the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind once reaching the red planet the following year. Scientists ended up blaming the sun for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/national-a5fcfcd8673e474597f034e087a6f60c\">Mars losing most of its atmosphere to space<\/a>&nbsp;over the eons, turning it from wet and warm to the dry and cold world it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Maven also has served as a communication relay for NASA\u2019s two Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Engineering investigations are underway, according to NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">NASA has two other spacecraft around Mars that are still active: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in 2005, and Mars Odyssey, launched in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/nasa-loses-contact-maven-spacecraft-orbiting-mars-past-128291233\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212;&nbsp;NASA has lost contact with a&nbsp;spacecraft that has orbited Mars&nbsp;for more than a decade. Maven&nbsp;abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working fine before it went behind&nbsp;the red planet. When it reappeared, there was only silence. Launched in 2013, Maven began studying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":51074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[24159,35613,687],"class_list":["post-51073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-contact","tag-maven","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51075,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51073\/revisions\/51075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}