NASA engineers explain how a new flat satellite design just worked in orbit, and why it could matter far beyond this mission.
WASHINGTON — New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch. NASA said Dec. 9 that it lost contact with the spacecraft three ...
A Mars spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been AWOL. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact ...
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, launched November 2013 and entered Mars orbit in September 2014. After more than a decade of cutting edge orbital science, ...