MAVEN on Track to Carry Out its Science Mission
The MAVEN spacecraft and all of its science instruments have completed their initial checkout, and all of them are working as expected. This means that MAVEN is on track to […]
The MAVEN spacecraft and all of its science instruments have completed their initial checkout, and all of them are working as expected. This means that MAVEN is on track to […]
A NASA mission that will investigate how Mars lost its atmosphere and abundant liquid water launched into space at 1:28 p.m. EST Monday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […]
NASA’s next Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), is set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket Monday, Nov. 18. The two-hour launch […]
A NASA spacecraft that will examine the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail is undergoing final preparations for a scheduled 1:28 p.m. EST Monday, Nov. 18 launch from Cape […]
NASA is once again open for business in a big way. While we were out, several of our on-going missions achieved significant milestones, and although it will take a little […]
In an increasingly rare display of sanity from Washington, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) was declared “excepted” from the current government shutdown so preparations for its November […]
It’s not easy to simulate millions of miles electronically, but that’s what engineers did recently as they tested the all-important communications system the MAVEN spacecraft will use to relay its […]
NASA will give 150 of its social media followers an insider’s look at America’s space program and the opportunity to see a launch in person. The NASA Social, scheduled for […]
MAVEN’s approach to Mars studies will be quite different from that taken by recent probes dispatched to the Red Planet. Instead of rolling about on the surface looking for clues […]
Haiku recognized in the MAVEN Message-to-Mars contest were announced today on the Going to Mars campaign website. Haiku authors from around the world—including Palestine, India, Australia, and Europe—entered the contest. […]
NASA’s next spacecraft going to Mars arrived Friday, Aug. 2, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and is now perched in a cleanroom to begin final preparations for […]
Members of the Division for Planetary Sciences are cordially invited to the launch of the MAVEN mission to Mars from Kennedy Space Center. The launch period begins Nov. 18, 2013, […]
NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried onboard a spacecraft that will study the martian […]