{"id":17326,"date":"2022-12-21T18:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-calls-an-end-to-mars-insight-lander-mission-with-aerojet-getting-in-on-tributes\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T18:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:48:44","slug":"nasa-calls-an-end-to-mars-insight-lander-mission-with-aerojet-getting-in-on-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-calls-an-end-to-mars-insight-lander-mission-with-aerojet-getting-in-on-tributes\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA calls an end to Mars InSight lander mission, with Aerojet getting in on tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the InSight lander\u2019s last selfies was sent back from Mars in April. (NASA Photo) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Four years after engineers cheered the landing of the robotic InSight spacecraft on Mars, NASA today declared an end to the $830 million quake-detecting mission.<\/p>\n

In a mission update, NASA said the control team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to contact the lander in two consecutive attempts \u2014 which had previously been set as the criterion for ending the mission. Dust had been building up on the probe\u2019s solar panels, and mission planners concluded that the batteries finally ran out of power. The last time NASA heard from Mars InSight was on Dec. 15.<\/p>\n

JPL\u2019s Deep Space Network will continue to listen for signals from the spacecraft, but further contact is considered unlikely.<\/p>\n

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