Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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After a week of almost no information on what happened to NASA's MAVEN we now find out that analysis of the loss of contact suggest the spacecraft may have been spinning and changed to a new orbit:

science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/2025/12/15/nasa-continues-maven-spacecraft-recontact-efforts

With conjunction coming up in a few days it's possible that the window to save MAVEN may be closing.

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