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YOURIKKA
by Yourikka Research
Welcome to Yourikka.com. A veteran NASA spacecraft called MAVEN has sniffed the Martian atmosphere for the last time. More than a decade after the orbiter arrived at Mars, and six months after it unexpectedly went quiet, NASA has officially declared the mission dead. The conclusion is that the spacecraft is not recoverable. The team has really experienced the loss of a loved one with the end of the mission. MAVEN, which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, last contacted Earth in December 2025, shortly before it passed behind Mars. When it emerged, radio dishes could not find its signal. Fragments of data received on December 6 suggested the spacecraft was spinning at about 2.7 revolutions per minute, when it should not have been spinning at all. Any kind of rotation was anomalous. A review board determined that the spinning drained the batteries, cutting power to the spacecraft's communications
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Yourikka.com. A veteran NASA spacecraft called MAVEN has sniffed the Martian atmosphere for the last time. More than a decade after the orbiter arrived at Mars, and six months after it unexpectedly went quiet, NASA has officially declared the mission dead. The conclusion is that the spacecraft is not recoverable. The team has really experienced the loss of a loved one with the end of the mission. MAVEN, which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, last contacted Earth in December 2025, shortly before it passed behind Mars. When it emerged, radio dishes could not find its signal. Fragments of data received on December 6 suggested the spacecraft was spinning at about 2.7 revolutions per minute, when it should not have been spinning at all. Any kind of rotation was anomalous. A review board determined that the spinning drained the batteries, cutting power to the spacecraft's communications
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