Colin Pillinger, the designer of robot Beagle 2 was not found since its release on Mars, thinks he has discovered the wreck of the probe on images of NASA, he said Tuesday at the BBC. The trace of an impact would be visible in a crater filmed by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, he said.
Beagle 2 Mars dropped in December 2003 to look for signs of life, has never issued signal. ESA (European Space Agency), its sponsor, has declared lost in February 2004. A British parliamentary report had found there a year Beagle 2 failed because its sponsors had wanted "a cheap Mission".
Several spots visible around the crater, he added, could include airbags which Beagle 2 was equipped to cushion his descent to the Red Planet. Colin Pillinger think finally have identified the form of non-deployed solar panels. The Professor Pillinger seeks the robot for two years. It recognizes that it may be told that Beagle 2 is too small to be seen from space. The disappearance of the robot is unclear to this day, but a majority of specialists involving a less dense atmosphere than expected on arrival.
The International Space Station (ISS) in 2009 could accommodate a crew of six astronauts against the current two, said Tuesday the Russian space agency Roskosmos. This project will allow other ISS partners, including Europe and Japan, to send their astronauts on long-duration mission on the ISS.
So far, only the Russians and the Americans had participated in the "permanent" six-month missions. European astronauts are made as short stays, about ten days. The project to increase the number of members of the crew of the ISS has been delayed after the disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia in February 2003. Since then, the refueling station as the transport of crews based entirely on Russia.
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