22 h. ago Maven, we have a problem: NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a DECADE

The space agency lost contact with the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft as it orbited behind the red planet on December 6.

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35 h. ago Nasa loses contact with spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade

Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekendNasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link.Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. Nasa said this week that the spacecraft had been working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared, there was only silence. “Telemetry showed all subsystems working normally before it orbited behind [Mars],” Nasa said in a statement. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Urgent hunt for Maven spacecraft after NASA abruptly loses contact

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade.

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36 h. ago NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade

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4 d. ago ORBIT CLIPPER launch marks new era for sustainable London transport

ORBIT CLIPPER launch marks new era for sustainable London transport  Shippax

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4 w. ago Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches rocket carrying twin Nasa spacecraft to Mars

A huge New Glenn rocket successfully took off to place two spacecraft in orbit for a later boost to the red planetBlue Origin successfully launched its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’s company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon.The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasted into the afternoon sky from the Cape Canaveral space force station, sending Nasa’s twin Mars orbiters on a long journey to the red planet. Liftoff was stalled for four days by inclement local weather as well as solar storms strong enough to paint the skies with auroras as far south as Florida. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Solar storms delay the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket with Mars orbiters for NASA

Strong solar storms responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. have delayed the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket

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