NASA is working to re-establish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft after ground controllers unexpectedly lost signal with the Mars orbiter on 6 December, an incident that comes just weeks after the mission helped capture some of the most detailed observations ever recorded of an interstellar comet passing through the solar system.
According to NASA, telemetry received before MAVEN passed behind Mars showed all onboard systems functioning normally. However, after the spacecraft emerged from occultation, the agency's Deep Space Network was unable to detect a signal, prompting an ongoing investigation into the anomaly.
