NASA loses contact with Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars
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At this point, sending probes to Mars has almost become routine, but the ESCAPADE mission is showing that there's always a new way to do things.
NASA lost contact with the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it passed behind the planet. The agency is investigating the cause while reviewing the mission’s role in Mars science and rover communications
The joint Russian-European ExoMars project included two phases - the ExoMars-TGO orbital probe equipped with Russian and foreign research instruments meant to study the atmosphere of Mars, as well as the Kazachok descent module and the Rosalind Franklin ...