"The spacecraft's basically in a configuration, in an orbit, that's very similar to what it would have been if the mission had ended nominally."

NASA has ended its MAVEN mission after losing contact with the spacecraft after an 11-year exploration of Mars’ atmosphere and climate.

The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more

MAVEN was the first mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet

NASA's Mars Maven spacecraft has been declared dead after six months of radio silence

Nasa confirmed Wednesday that the mission, which launched in 2013, had concluded

NASA's Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars has been declared lost. The mission ended after more than ten years of studying the red planet's atmosphere. The spacecraft went silent in…

Launched in 2013 to study the red planet’s atmosphere from orbit, Maven mysteriously fell silent in December.

A NASA probe that had a close encounter with a strange object from another solar system has been declared dead and scientists still do not know what happened.

Almost six months after NASA lost contact with the spacecraft, the agency has declared the MAVEN satellite unrecoverable and its mission concluded.

WASHINGTON, May 29 : NASA announced on Tuesday the end of the mission of its MAVEN spacecraft, which spent more than 11 years orbiting Mars to study the atmosphere of Earth's…

NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last year, and that its extraordinarily successful mission…

The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a decade of observations.

NASA said on Wednesday it will end its mission studying Mars' atmosphere and evolution after losing contact with its MAVEN spacecraft for six months. MAVEN, which entered Martian…

An artist's concept of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars. [Photo/Agencies]

NASA said Wednesday it will end its mission to study the atmosphere and evolution of Mars after its probe went silent for six months.

NASA has formally ended a Mars mission that has been out of contact for six months while the investigation into the spacecraft’s demise continues.

MAVEN was meant to last one or two years, but the probe stayed active for over a decade, until Dec. 2025 when it lost contact with Earth.

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead. The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission...

Mission beendet: Die US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa hat sich von der Marssonde »Maven« verabschiedet. Über ein Jahrzehnt hatte sie den Roten Planeten aus der Nähe erforscht – und dabei…

"The spacecraft's basically in a configuration, in an orbit, that's very similar to what it would have been if the mission had ended nominally."