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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 ...
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NASA’s MAVEN went silent on Mars, here’s what we know

NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has slipped into an unnerving quiet, cutting off a decade of continuous atmospheric monitoring from high above the red planet. Engineers are now racing to understand ...