11 November 2016
Beagle 2 Mars probe came close to success
... analysis to match both simulated and real images of Beagle 2 to establish how sunlight would have reflected off ... - but it is extremely unlikely and I doubt that it is." The Beagle 2 mission was led by the late Prof Colin Pillinger. His spacecraft ...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
..., took a little less than 8 minutes. During that time, Beagle 2 was slowed by a combination of aerobraking, a 1.9 metre drogue...the UK and around Europe and the world in building Beagle 2. Beagle 2 inspired many people among the general public and ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... worked across science, applications and engineering on some of Europe’s iconic space missions such as Giotto, Hubble, Envisat, Beagle 2, Lisa Pathfinder and ExoMars. In 2014 he took up a new role at the UK Space Agency as Head of International Space...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... ever created. Thus, the HST could be viewed as being as significant to the history of science as Darwin’s HMS Beagle, Newton’s ‘Opticks’ treatise or Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Given the chance, we’d do everything we could to preserve those...
09 October 2015
First Cubesat from American Tribal College Sent into Space
..., and cloud height measurements” with the help of a light camera. The cubesat’s construction allowed student Ryan Beagles, who designed its solar panels, to add some personal touches. “On the top panel, I decided to put the...
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... agency, NASA, has succeeded on placing a working rover on the planet’s surface. The Soviets' Mars-3 and Europe's Beagle-2 missions both landed safely, but failed shortly afterwards. NASA is hoping for success again, when next...
