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MAVEN

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Science ExplorationinterplanetaryCOSPAR 2013-063ALaunched 11/18/2013
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Mission & Launch
Launch Mission
MAVEN Mission
Launch Vehicle
Atlas V 401
Launch Date
11/18/2013
Last Contact
12/6/2025
Orbit & Mass
Orbit Class
interplanetary
Altitude
-38,978 km
Inclination
27.68 deg
Dry Mass
809 kg
Total Mass
2,454 kg
Payload Classification
Mission Type
Science Exploration
Payload Category
PLAN
Payload Class
C
Organizations
Operator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Manufacturer
Lockheed Martin
Registry
COSPAR ID
2013-063A
UN Registration
ST/SG/SER.E/736
Track
Mentions
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MAVEN was launched in 2013 and has a history of navigation challenges.

GeneralValue 2.0Dec 9, 2025NASA Loses Contact with MAVEN Mars Orbiter

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has experienced a critical loss of situational awareness.

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Dec 9, 2025
NASA Loses Contact with MAVEN Mars Orbiter

The White House budget proposal suggests canceling NASA missions including ExoMars, New Horizons, Juno, Mars Odyssey, and MAVEN.

FinancialGeneralLegalValue 4.0Nov 28, 2025欧州の火星探査計画「エクソマーズ」、NASAが支援継続を再確約

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter captured unique ultraviolet images of 3I/ATLAS that help determine its chemical makeup and water vapor release.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.8Nov 26, 2025NASA's Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS

MAVEN's observations provide an estimated upper limit of the comet's deuterium to hydrogen ratio, indicating its origin.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Nov 26, 2025NASA's Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS

Over 10 days starting on September 27, MAVEN captured 3I/ATLAS in two unique ways with its Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) camera.

CapabilityPlanValue 3.5Nov 26, 2025NASA's Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS

UC Berkeley has been involved in Mars missions for nearly 60 years, building instruments for important missions like NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and ongoing missions such as MAVEN and the Emirates Mars Mission Hope probe.

GeneralCapabilityValue 3.8Nov 6, 2025NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars - twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold - will launch in early November

Aurorae on Mars have previously been observed in ultraviolet from orbit by ESA's Mars Express and NASA's MAVEN missions.

GeneralValue 2.8Sep 23, 2025Predicting Martian aurora to safeguard future explorers

The budget requests to cancel active Mars telecommunications orbiters like MAVEN and Mars Odyssey.

LegalValue 2.0Jun 16, 2025NASA’s 2026 budget in brief: Unprecedented, unstrategic, and wasteful

AI tools developed under Project Maven are deployed by frontline combat units including the U.S. Army’s 18th Airborne Corps.

CapabilityValue 3.4May 7, 2024Geospatial intelligence gets smart

Project Maven experienced political and media controversy in 2018 when Google employees raised ethical objections to Google providing an open-source machine learning library used by the Pentagon.

LegalGeneralValue 2.1May 7, 2024Geospatial intelligence gets smart

All-stellar mode was developed and uplinked to MAVEN on 2022-04-19, five months ahead of the originally planned 2022-10-01 implementation.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Jun 5, 2022NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft exits safe mode + goes with stellar navigation

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft launched in November 2013 and entered orbit around Mars in September 2014.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Jun 5, 2022NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft exits safe mode + goes with stellar navigation

The MAVEN spacecraft lost contact on 2022-02-22 after performing a routine scheduled power cycle of IMU-1.

CapabilityValue 4.0Jun 5, 2022NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft exits safe mode + goes with stellar navigation

MAVEN is a 2013 Mars orbiter that is still studying the planet’s atmosphere and will serve as a communications relay for Perseverance.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.2Feb 18, 2021Report calls for revamped cost-conscious vision for Mars exploration

NASA has relied on orbiters launched primarily for science missions to serve as relays, including Mars Odyssey (launched in 2001) and MAVEN (launched in 2013).

GeneralValue 2.8Jan 29, 2021NASA may change MRO orbit to support Mars 2020

NASA’s MAVEN orbiter, launched in 2013 to study atmospheric escape, is somewhat larger than Hope and cost about $670,000,000 to build and launch.

CapabilityFinancialValue 4.0Jul 13, 2020The UAE’s hope for success at Mars, and at home