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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3 d. ago NASA spacecraft were 'vulnerable to hacking' for years but nobody knew until AI fixed the flaw in 4 days

Cyber criminals could reportedly have hijacked spacecraft or the Mars Rovers, or intercepted highly sensitive data from space missions, until AI spotted the problem and applied a fix

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5 d. ago NASA spacecraft tracks comet every four minutes and spots 'alien spaceship' 3I/Atlas

A comet has come under unprecedented scrutiny after NASA managed to capture images of SWAN every 4 minutes for 40 days, even catching a glimpse of the mysterious interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS

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6 d. ago Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands? | Simon Jenkins

We know from recent hacks, and even the Snowden revelations, how vulnerable information gathered is to theft and misuseOne thing to remember about the modern world is that nothing online is ever secure. M&S and Jaguar taught us that. Edward Snowden taught us that. Every week, it seems, some giant corporation sees its system collapse at the touch of a button in an attic.The government this week opened a consultation on its plan for nationwide facial recognition and surveillance. You would need only put your face outdoors and walk down the street and authorities will know and record it. Of course we will be assured that all will be kept secure. It will not. Cash or conspiracy will find it out and it will leak.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Scientist shares 'what NASA should have told us' about 'alien mothership' 3I/ATLAS in press conference

Harvard professor and physicist Avi Loeb is adamant 3I/ATLAS could still be a spacecraft despite NASA quashing speculation, and says we will know more before Christmas as the interstellar object approaches

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3 w. ago New Nasa 3I/ATLAS 'spaceship' pictures released in major comet update

Several NASA spacecraft near the red planet captured images as it travelled through space around 18 million miles way

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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 Stunning aurora australis lights up sky above New Zealand and Australia after ‘cannibal’ solar storm

The geomagnetic storm, caused by powerful bursts of energy from the sun, also postponed the launch of two Mars-bound Nasa spacecraft in the USFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSkywatchers enjoyed a stunning treat on Wednesday night, with the southern lights visible across large parts of Australia and New Zealand.The aurora australis that lit up the sky resulted from what has been dubbed a “cannibal” solar storm. Continue reading...

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