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Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: darren r on January 16, 2015, 05:23:34 AM

Title: Beagle 2
Post by: darren r on January 16, 2015, 05:23:34 AM
According to the Guardian newspaper this morning, the UK space agency has confirmed that Beagle 2 did land on Mars. No details yet, but they'll be making an announcement later. What a shame Colin Pillinger isn't still around.
Title: Re: Beagle 2
Post by: Zakalwe on January 16, 2015, 05:46:57 AM
Details here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-led-beagle-2-lander-found-on-mars
Title: Re: Beagle 2
Post by: Luke Pemberton on January 16, 2015, 01:33:49 PM
Quote from: darren r on January 16, 2015, 05:23:34 AM
According to the Guardian newspaper this morning, the UK space agency has confirmed that Beagle 2 did land on Mars. No details yet, but they'll be making an announcement later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30784886

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What a shame Colin Pillinger isn't still around.

My thoughts exactlly when I read the news. I felt so sorry for Colin after the event, seeing his work 'fail' in the glare of the press and some of the finger pointing and mockery he faced aftewards. Landing on Mars ain't  like dusting crops.
Title: Re: Beagle 2
Post by: onebigmonkey on January 17, 2015, 04:24:28 AM
My reaction was exactly the same: such a shame he couldn't have seen this.

If the interpretation of the photographs is correct it came agonisingly close to success. You have to wonder what would have happened had the antenna not been under all those petals - a tiny design change might have been all it needed.
Title: Re: Beagle 2
Post by: Dalhousie on January 26, 2015, 12:12:24 AM
Quote from: onebigmonkey on January 17, 2015, 04:24:28 AM
You have to wonder what would have happened had the antenna not been under all those petals - a tiny design change might have been all it needed.

Presumably there were good reasons for that.  It is also ironic that the whole lander deployment was probably the most exhaustively tested aspect of EDL.