All Things Space, UFOs, etc.NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too Posted on January 15, 2026 by Administrator MAVEN (short for “Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution”) has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the spacecraft, NASA announced in an update on Monday (Dec. 15). And a fragment of tracking data recovered on Dec. 6 delivered a bit of additional bad news.
