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| Beagle 2 - Destination Mars - BUT WHO ACTUALLY WENT ?? | [TV] |
| Our efforts to discover why the Beagle 2 contribution did not appear on Channel 4's Destination Mars have failed to reveal any explanation. Phone calls to RDF TV, who made the programme, have ascertained that
the Producer, Assistant Producer and Researcher no longer work there. Perhaps they have gone to Mars ..... or maybe they were Martians ...... ! |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 27-Mar-01 11:23:51 |
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| Destination Mars | [TV] |
| Beagle 2 will be getting a mention in the last part of the series Destination Mars showing on Channel 4, Monday 26 March at 8.00 pm. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 23-Mar-01 13:41:03 |
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| Returned samples from Mars Meeting (23 March) | [PROJECT] |
| Beagle 2 Lead Scientist said this morning on the Today Programme (BBC R4) "My nightmare scenario is that Beagle 2 gets a sniff of a positive result and we have no plans in place for a follow-up mission". Being
interviewed on the rumour that Mars Polar Lander has been located, he also talked about the need for sample return mission. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 22-Mar-01 09:15:24 |
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| COMING SOON... Returned Samples from Mars? | [MARS] |
| Martian exploration after Beagle 2 - this Friday 23 March at the Royal Society in London at group of UK scientists and engineers will meet to discuss the feasibility of returning samples from Mars and outline
the scientific knowledge which could be gained from extensive laboratory analyses. For more information contact Professor Pillinger on 01908 652119. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 19-Mar-01 14:36:05 |
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| One small sensor.... | [INSTRUMENTS] |
| Recent meeting at the OU with Spanish and Finnish colleagues to discuss progress on the environmental sensors and testing procedures. |
| Below: Prototype sensors (dust impact and UV) can be seen on the white card in the centre of the table. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 14-Mar-01 16:27:31 |
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| Drives and Controls Exhibition | [EXHIBITIONS] |
| Beagle 2 featured on the maxon motors stand at the Drives and Controls exhibition held at the new ExCel Centre in London's Docklands. |
| Below: Photographed before the opening with colleagues from maxon motors, later Colin Pillinger gave numerous interviews to the trade press. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 13-Mar-01 17:35:49 |
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| Hong Kong award for Dr TC Ng | [TEAM] |
| Grinder and corer supplier Dr TC Ng and his team have won the Pacific Century Cyber Works 1010 Most Innovative Leader Award as part of the Leader of the Year awards (Sing Tao Group) and the Hong Kong
Institution of Engineers Most Innovative Engineering Award for the development of the forceps and micro end-effectors. |
| Below: The UK's BBC Tomorrow's World team filming recently in Dr Ng's laboratory for a Hong Kong special edition of the programme. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 12-Mar-01 10:08:36 |
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| Coming Soon on Channel 4 | [TV] |
| Another Mars TV documentary - 'Destination Mars', first part next Monday at 8pm on Channel 4. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 09-Mar-01 11:25:55 |
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| Oxford and Cambridge talks | [LECTURES] |
| The demand for talks to student and public groups continues. The Lead Scientist delivered the Research School Annual Lecture to an academic audience at Oxford Brookes University last evening
then made a dash to Cambridge to talk to the Papworth Astronomical Society. |
| Below: A dedicated Beagle 2 follower with his own-designed tee-shirt was amongst the appreciative audience. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 08-Mar-01 14:11:23 |
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| Mars in their Eyes | [IN PRINT] |
| Written by Will Hodgkinson and with a double page spread illustration showing Damien Hirst, Colin Pillinger, Dave Rowntree, Alex James and Beagle 2 (photographed by Gered Mankowitz) the Sunday Times
magazine article outlined the mission and the contributions from Britpop and Britart. And as for the cup of tea in the picture (for those who saw the article!), well it was 4 o'clock of course .... time to put the kettle on. |
| "Beagle 2 - no bigger than a garden barbeque ... Britspace is now ready for takeoff" |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 04-Mar-01 12:42:59 |
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| Coming soon | [IN PRINT] |
| Look out for Beagle 2 in the Sunday Times Magazine, the lander and the lead scientist and friends as never seen before. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 02-Mar-01 16:50:45 |
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| Support for Beagle 2 | [PROJECT] |
| Mechanical Ground Support Equipment from EPS Logistics delivered recently to Astrium in Stevenage. The Solar Array Transport Containers were immediately put to use to ship two development model solar panel
substrates to Spectrolab USA for installation of the solar cells. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 28-Feb-01 15:19:20 |
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| Electrical Interface Unit | [INSTRUMENTS] |
| The Engineering Model of the Beagle 2 electrical interface unit built at Astrium's Portsmouth site was handed over to Mars Express in Toulouse, integrated into the spacecraft electrical test bench and declared
a successful integration by the Test Review Board. |
| Below: Beagle 2 electrical interface unit, approx 10 inches long. |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 26-Feb-01 09:07:14 |
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| Starman - Online in the Guardian | [IN PRINT] |
| The technology of Beagle 2 is addressed in an interview for the Guardian printed today. Despite, or perhaps as a result of, being Lead Scientist of the lander mission, Professor Pillinger cites "the corkscrew"
as his favourite gadget! |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 22-Feb-01 13:26:31 |
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| The new rock and roll | [IN PRINT] |
| It may not have been Glastonbury, reported the Daily Telegraph about the Science meets the Media party organised by the paper at the Royal Society - but Beagle 2 supporter Alex James of the rock band Blur
clearly attracted the attention of reporters. During the event Alex was photographed with Colin Pillinger, and the two spent much of the time discussing the mission. |
| "Hey Science, it's the new rock and roll... it's exciting, it's glamorous" - Alex James |
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Posted by: Beagle 2 Team | 07-Feb-01 11:21:54 |
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| More news reports | [IN PRINT] |
| . . . THES Is there anybody out there ?; Daily Express Saturday Magazine; Voyager Magazine; Spaceflight; Milton Keynes Citizen |
| . . . from a little further afield, in Italy, La Repubblica della Donne carried an article Autostop per Marte and The Weekend Australian reminds us of the 99 Chelsea Flower Show Beagle 2 appearance. |
| . . . Nasa may have its Mars Surveyor and Mars Rover as well as the Mars Odyssey Mission ... but the Brits have Beagle 2 ...costs a bargain basement 25 million pounds to build; Scotland on Sunday, 4th Feb 2001 |
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| Westminster Hall | [GOVERNMENT] |
| A few choice clips from the Space debate: "The Mars lander [Beagle 2] ... gives exactly that opportunity of excitement" Mr Ian Taylor MP, "I have to say that the Pillinger example is a great one...... We need more
examples of this character" Mr Martin O'Neill MP. |
| And our favourite: "Lord Sainsbury told me last night that Blur, as opposed to Blair, have recorded a track to be taken in Beagle 2 to Mars. Damien Hirst has designed something. It is an exciting project, of which
we should all be proud" Mr Alan Johnson MP |
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| It is strange that we don't discus space more frequently , given the amount of public interest in space and space travel, and the excitement of science fiction ..." |
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| Long Journey on a Virgin Train ?? | [IN PRINT] |
| Don't worry you can read "The Race to the Red Planet" in HotLine, the complimentary Magazine for Virgin Train Customers. |
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| Out of the Lions Den | [TV] |
| Filming at the OU with the company 'Flightcam' who recently sent a camera (known as BoulderCam) concealed into a lion's den for the recent BBC documentary "Lions, A Spy in the Den". |
| Below: after BoulderCam, here comes WireCam and HeliCam (helicopter not shown!) |
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| Blur animated | [TV] |
| Unknown to most Blur fans, drummer Dave Rowntree has worked as a professional computer animator for several years. His company Nanomation, which specialises in all aspects of 3D animation, as well
as interactive entertainment and animation software development, joined forces with Beagle 2 to produce an exclusive section of the Beagle video. |
| The cartoons (below) show Blur in spacesuits performing the song 'Far Out' from their album 'Parklife'. Dave's work has also been aired on 'MTV' and 'The Eleven O'clock Show'. |
| Dave says of the animation "You have to produce 25 pictures for every second of animation, so a minute and half is a lot of work for two people. Luckily we're not interested in sleep". |
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