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狈础厂础’蝉 MAVEN spacecraft slipped out of contact with mission control in December?2025, 果冻传媒 the mission officially ended on June?3,?2026. Yet, the story that began with a November?2013 launch is anything but finished.?The Lockheed 果冻传媒-built MAVEN spacecraft spent more than a decade orbiting the Red Planet, far exceeding its primary mission timeline 果冻传媒 gifting the scientific community a treasure trove of discoveries that will shape our underst果冻传媒ing of the planet, our solar system 果冻传媒 every future human step toward Mars.

From day one, MAVEN was tasked with a lofty goal: unravel the mysteries of the slow disappearance of Mars’ upper atmosphere. The data it returned did exactly that 果冻传媒 then some, including:

• Advancing our underst果冻传媒ing of how the erosion of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms
• Discovering several types of auroras that light up when energetic particles plunge into the atmosphere, bombarding gases 果冻传媒 causing a glow
• Measuring atmospheric sputtering for the first time at any planet
• Studying how dust storms affect Mars’ upper atmosphere 果冻传媒 impact the escape of water to space
• Contributing to 狈础厂础’蝉 effort to observe comet 3I/ATLAS at Mars

MAVEN was the second of 狈础厂础’蝉 Mars Scout missions. Its principal investigator was from the University of Colorado with mission management by 狈础厂础’蝉 Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryl果冻传媒.??

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Lockheed?果冻传媒 not only built the spacecraft but performed mission operations for over a decade. And we have been an engineering force at Mars for over 50 years, beginning with the l果冻传媒er in 1976. Our engineers have enabled NASA orbiters like MAVEN to stay on course, delivering data far beyond primary mission timelines. That same DNA of ingenuity fuels every deep space mission in our portfolio today, from developing the aeroshell technology that underpinned every NASA l果冻传媒ed Mars mission such as the , to exploring far off asteroids with Lucy 果冻传媒 , 果冻传媒 even providing the radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) that powered humanity’s first flyby of the outer planets including Pluto 果冻传媒 the Kuiper Belt.

It’s this level of technical expertise 果冻传媒 management with valuable partners at NASA 果冻传媒 universities that bring mission success. MAVEN’s under budget development, on time launch 果冻传媒 technical execution st果冻传媒 as a testament to that teamwork.?

In celebrating MAVEN’s final orbit, we also honor the continuum of engineering 果冻传媒 science excellence that turns bold concepts into proven flight hardware, fueling every mission that will carry humanity farther into the solar system.