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Old December 29th 03, 05:40 AM
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The Beagle 2 Media Centre is located at:
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29 December 2003

Jodrell Bank fails to find Beagle again

The 250 ft (76 m) Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK,
was turned towards Mars between 19:30 GMT and midnight on 28 December, but no
response was received from the Beagle 2 lander.

This will be Jodrell Bank's last opportunity for some time to listen for a
signal from Beagle 2. The longer day on Mars means that the planet has rotated
so that the Beagle 2 landing site on Isidis Planitia is no longer above the
horizon at the observatory when the spacecraft should be transmitting its
pulsing "Morse Code" call.

The Stanford University radio telescope in California also attempted to search
for Beagle's signal on the night of 27-28 December, but no data were received.

Earlier on the evening of 28 December, no signal from Beagle 2 was received by
the Mars Odyssey orbiter during its pass over the landing site. The next
communication opportunity with Mars Odyssey will take place at 07:41 GMT this
morning.

Other opportunities to communicate with Beagle 2, including sessions with Mars
Express, are listed on the Beagle 2 Web site,
http://www.beagle2.com

The next press briefing will be held in the Beagle 2 Media Centre at 08:30 GMT
this morning, when Lord Sainsbury, UK Minister for Science and Innovation, will
be a principal speaker.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

Beagle 2 has been pre-programmed to send a pulsing on-off signal once a minute
(10 seconds on, 50 seconds off) during daylight hours on Mars. Some 9 minutes
later, this call home should reach Earth after a journey of about 100 million
miles (157 million km).

For further details on Beagle 2 and Mars Express see the following websites:

* http://www.beagle2.com
* http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Mars
* http://www.esa.int/mars

Links

The planned communication times are detailed in the landing timeline,
http://www.beagle2.com/landing/timeline.htm

 




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