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Beagle 2

Mars Lander

Beagle 2 was an inoperative British Mars lander carried to Mars by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission. It was intended to carry out an astrobiology investigation that would have looked for evidence of past life on the planet. The lander separated successfully from Mars Express on 19 December 2003 and was scheduled to reach the surface on 25 December, but no communication was received at the expected landing time. After many attempts to make contact, the European Space Agency declared the mission lost in February 2004. Its fate stayed a mystery until January 2015, when images from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showed it had landed safely but that two of its four solar panels had failed to deploy, blocking its communications antenna. The lander was named after HMS Beagle, the ship that carried the naturalist Charles Darwin on his voyage around the world.

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Status (category)
Lost 1
Launch Date
2003-06-02 1
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Source Beagle 2 (Wikipedia)Consortium, industrial partner
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Astrium – Main industrial partner
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1. Beagle 2 (Wikipedia)
  • Mission, launch
    Mars Express was launched from Baikonur on 2 June 2003 at 17:45 UTC.
  • Lead, mission outcome
    declared the mission lost in February 2004
  • Consortium, industrial partner
    Astrium, Main industrial partner
  • Part Of: Mars Express, Lead
    transported by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission
  • Mission Of: Mars Express, Lead
    transported by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission
  • In Group: European Mars Landers, lead paragraph
    The Beagle 2 is an inoperative British Mars lander that was transported by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission.
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