Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

Discover how the International Space Station stayed alive after using Soyuz support and new shuttle inspections to keep science going.

In the study, published in Research Notes of the AAS, lead author Thomas Marshall Eubanks of the aerospace firm Space ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, launched in 2013 from Florida, studies the upper atmosphere of Mars to understand its ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

NASA has officially lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2014. The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

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NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

NASA teams are working to restore contact with one of its most advanced interplanetary satellites. MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay. In a statement late Dec. 9 ...