{"id":228263,"date":"2026-01-03T01:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/nasa-confirms-it-has-lost-contact-with-mars-orbiter-maven"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:14:56","slug":"nasa-confirms-it-has-lost-contact-with-mars-orbiter-maven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/nasa-confirms-it-has-lost-contact-with-mars-orbiter-maven","title":{"rendered":"NASA Confirms It Has Lost Contact With Mars Orbiter MAVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-confirms-it-has-lost-contact-with-mars-orbiter-maven.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has officially lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Mars<\/a> since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/maven\/\">MAVEN spacecraft<\/a> \u2013 Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution \u2013 abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re-emerged from behind Mars, however, NASA ground control was unable to reestablish a connection.<\/p>\n<p>On December 9, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/maven\/2025\/12\/09\/nasa-teams-work-maven-spacecraft-signal-loss\/\">the space agency announced<\/a> it is investigating the issue and attempting to locate a signal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has officially lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2014. The MAVEN spacecraft \u2013 Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution \u2013 abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re-emerged from behind Mars, however, NASA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}