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Subj: Beagle 2 Separation
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 355.04 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. December 21, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-355.04
As the editor, G4DPZ was writing this copy (12/19/03), the BBC announced
that
Beagle 2 lander had successfully seperated from the Mars Express Spacecraft.
The following announcement is from the Beagle 2 Web Site:
http://www.beagle2.com/index.htm
"We have separation! That was the message from the European Space Operations
Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, to announce that the British-built
Beagle 2 spacecraft is now flying independently from its Mars Express
"mother ship". Initial confirmation that the separation manoeuvre has been
successful came at 10.42 GMT, when Mars Express mission control at ESOC
received telemetry data to indicate that electrical disconnection had taken
place between Beagle 2 and the orbiter. This was followed at 11.12 GMT by
confirmation that the two spacecraft had mechanically separated."
[ANS thanks The Beagle 2 Project Office for the above information]
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