I’m just listening to Steve Wright on Radio 2, and apparently Colin Pillinger will be on the show today. Colin’s the instigator and mission director of the Mars Express / Beagle 2 project and a supremely cool man, so it may be worth a listen if you’re free. The show finishes at 5 and can be listened to online.
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Colin was articulate as ever, explaining exactly what the current situation is. I’ll probably, being obsessed as I am, put up a proper blog post in the next couple of days. It may seem that there’s barely any chance of receiving a signal now, but spacecraft have been lost for this long before, and the next big communication attempt has as much chance of succeeding as any since Boxing Day, really.
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