Beagle 2. Arse. £45 million damp squib?

[General Ludd]

[Az]

yourself.


On topic: Is it final yet? or will they try again to make contact?

such a shame.

[Whaleboy]

Pillinger deserves as big a failure as possible for two reasons. His hair, and his accent. Scientific progress takes a back seat to the essential task of deriding this terrorist animal.

Why is it that when hairy men try to probe parts distant, it invariably ends in a ****-up?

[Tripledoc]

Originally posted by Azazel
On topic: Is it final yet? or will they try again to make contact?

I think contact will be tried again when the Mothership passes over the landing spot at 22.30 GMT, which is not so long from now.

[Hueij]

On the bright side: next months we will laugh at the Americans when their two probes fail

[Az]

"mothership". this sounds so cool.

[Tripledoc]

The beagle 2 website now reports:

"A search for a Beagle 2 radio signal was carried out this evening without success."

So that's it I guess.

[Drake Tungsten]

Alex James must be really pissed off right now.

[Ned]

Everything project has three fundamentals: time, cost and quality. Each is a slice of pie. Increase one, the others shrink.

When NASA went to faster, cheaper under Clinton, quality suffered tremendously.

I am surprised to hear that the Europeans (and probably the Japanese) still adhere to faster, cheaper at the expense of quality. This is a proven formula for disaster in space.

[Skanky Burns]

I wonder what went wrong with it.

[Tripledoc]

Whoops. Got it wrong actually. It was the Odysseus Nasa satellite, launched back in 2001, that tried to contact the Beagle 2. The Mars Express, the actual mothership, has not yet settled into a true orbit yet, but is merely spinning into true orbit. So the chance is perhaps still that contact will be made.

[Ned]

R

dp

[Dis]

I really had good hopes for this one. I was going to post a thread as we (we includes the Brits and other countries in this case ), there are some more probes on the way

[Tripledoc]

Only NASA spacecraft have so far been able to fail to make contact,which means a questions as to that contact was unsuccesful?

Therefore, when the Mars Express is placed into true orbit, true contact will be made according to a calculation that is too difficult to explain. However, when the Mars Express has settled onto true orbit, true commmunication will perhaps take place.
This is because, in fact, the Mars Express is the only satellite capable of making contact to Beagle 2. In fact several experiments have been taking place involving radio contact between Beagle 2 and the Mothership: Mars Express. No forms of commmunication have ever been simulated between other space-born or sattelite objects.

Well, .....

[Whoha]

Our CIA station chief on mars will certainly reap the rewards for knocking out Europes and Japans probe.