NASA team presses MAVEN recovery before Mars solar conjunction

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025

NASA engineers continue attempts to regain contact with the MAVEN Mars orbiter, which last communicated with Earth on Dec. 6. Working with the Deep Space Network, the team is uplinking recovery commands and listening for any signal that would confirm the spacecraft has resumed communications.

Specialists are processing fragments of tracking data captured on Dec. 6 during a radio science ca