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Professor Colin Pillinger told a press conference Thursday morning the lack of signal does not necessarily mean failure and offered five possible scenarios:
• The spacecraft landed in the wrong place
• The craft's transmitting antenna landed disoriented and cannot fully open
• There is a communications mis-match between NASA's orbiting Mars Global Surveyor and Beagle 2
• A failure during entry descent damaged the spacecraft
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Whats the 5th? Aliens shot it down?
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:32
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Bummer.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:32
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How many astronauts does everyone else lose? |
How many astronauts does everyone else launch?
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Whaleboy
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Please make all cheques payable to Whaleboy
Jan 2003
time: 05:32
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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?
Last edited by Whaleboy on 26-12-2003 at 00:58
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Originally posted by Azazel
On topic: Is it final yet? or will they try again to make contact?
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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.
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Tripledoc
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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.
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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.
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of Aptos, CA
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time: 21:32
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Tripledoc
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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, .....
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25-12-2003 17:22
I called this one the other day in a chat room. Some chick was getting all worked up because it was Europe's first mission to Mars. She quoted something as saying that it was built faster and cheaper than most other things of its kind, I told her the American way worked better; longer, harder, very expensive.
europe can't even be compared.
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