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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 ...
NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicat ...
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NASA's Psyche probe takes brand-new images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid
Right now, a spacecraft named Psyche is headed to its namesake asteroid, 16 Psyche. The theory is that 16 Psyche, which lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may be made of precious ...
The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it will study, recently performed a flyby of Mars to take advantage of its gravitational pull and continue its trajectory ...
Efforts to communicate with MAVEN since then have been unsuccessful, according to an agency release, and NASA officials held ...
This partnership marks the latest foray into space exploration for Relativity Space, which aims to build cheap, reusable rockets ...
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