MAVEN Broadcast-Quality Spacecraft and Instrument Footage

  • Released Monday, July 30th, 2012
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:52PM
  • ID: 11053

This page contains broadcast-quality footage of the MAVEN spacecraft and science instruments. The MAVEN bus was built at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colorado. MAVEN's science instruments were built at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley; at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Launch operations were conducted at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, Florida. MAVEN was launched on November 18, 2013 and arrived at Mars on September 21, 2014 EDT.

Footage of the MAVEN spacecraft's integration at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, and pre-launch operations at Kennedy Space Center.

Footage of MAVEN's science instruments, including the magnetometers built by NASA GSFC; the IUVS instrument built by CU Boulder; the NGIMS instrument built by NASA GSFC; and the Particles and Fields instrument package built by UC Berkeley.

Footage of MAVEN's science instruments. This editor's resource version contains extended shots of each instrument package, without transitions.

Footage of MAVEN's construction. This video package was prepared for the live broadcast of MAVEN arriving at Mars.

Footage of MAVEN's twin magnetometers being assembled at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The MAVEN magnetometers are calibrated at NASA GSFC's Spacecraft Magnetic Test Facility.

Footage of the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer instrument (NGIMS) being assembled at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

MAVEN's Extreme Ultraviolet instrument (EUV) is tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The EUV was built by CU Boulder and is a component of the LPW instrument in the MAVEN Particles and Fields package.

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