Mars Lander on Schedule

[skomedal]

Signal acquired from TGO. Phew.

Jonathan Amos (@BBCAmos) on Twitter

What news of the lander?

 

[Lazarus]

Next possible signal from Lander c.19.30 BST.

ie In about 90 minutes from now.

 

[william-1]

ESA Feeds on Eutelsat @ 10 east curreently active.
11126 H 7200 S2 HD Control Room
11135 H 7200 S2 HD Reporter

 

[skomedal]

Press release: #ExoMars @ESA_TGO reaches #Mars orbit, Schiaparelli situation under assessment: http://ow.ly/M6We305lnmh


Experts will work through the night to assess the @ESA_EDM situation - next news will be tomorrow morning at 10:00 CEST #ExoMars


ESA_Schiaparelli (@ESA_EDM) on Twitter



Regards

 

[Channel Hopper]

I hope it's more complicated

Mars Probe Lost Due to Simple Math Error

 

[Lazarus]

Not even being able to spell "Maths" correctly is worrying.

 

[skomedal]

Regards and good luck

 

[Topper]

All signals returning to earth from the lander were swamped by a spike in the EM radiation from a location called Las Vegas in the Arizona desert where high levels of verbal diarrhoea were detected overnight

 

[Analoguesat]

So we now know:

- the parachute jettisoned too early
- the rockets fired for a few seconds instead of the 30 seconds or so expected


Science & Environment - BBC News

Ergo its now splattered all over the face of Mars & we have a new crater.....



You have to feel sorry for the scientist whose wind measuring experiment was carried on Beagle 2 & now 13 years later it was onboard Schiaparelli.......

 

[Channel Hopper]

I feel sorry for the martian who had just built his house with a lovely view to the canal. He might be able to construct a tent out of the parachute.

 

[2cvbloke]

Is it just me, or is there a common theme with non-NASA probes ending up crashing into Mars? Food for the conspiracy nuts I suppose...

 

[Topper]

Is it just me, or is there a common theme with non-NASA probes ending up crashing into Mars? Food for the conspiracy nuts I suppose...

Shirley, those comments also apply to NASA probes sent to Mars, in 1999 they had two different teams working on the project, one using American units of measurement and another using metric measurements and forgot to put in a conversion interface DOH

 

[william-1]

ExoMars is a $1.4 billion enterprise – to justify that cost, researchers must maximize the mission’s scientific returns. That’s why location is everything. Schiaparelli will target a generalized landing site – relatively flat, ellipse-shaped and about 60 miles across – on Mars’s Meridiani Planum.



Schiaparelli Mars probe's parachute 'jettisoned too early' - BBC News

 

[4wd]

Sad for all those involved in the work. As a note, my father was chief engineer at ESRO in the 60's and 70's, with responsability for all the buildingwork (tracking stations etc).

Not to be negative (rather realistic), but imagine the future newslines when all the first batches of Musk disciples (cobayes) are fried or crushed ;O) (ref Elon Musk Charts Path to Colonizing Mars Within a Decade)

 

[Channel Hopper]

Scorchmark on surface

http://gizmodo.com/it-looks-like-nasa-found-esas-crashed-mars-lander-1788077804

 

[Lazarus]

Oh bu**er.

 

[Archive4]

Oh bu**er.

Butter?
Something to go with it, that sums it up.

 

[Analoguesat]

According to that map william-1 posted earlier it looks like the bulls-eye was on the Opportunity lander

 

[Terryl]

Price of Earth scrap metal drops 2.345 Mars zuglets on arrival of new load from Earth, metals futures look good.

 

[Archive4]

Surprised it dropped so low! Cannot think there will be another free delivery for at least 8 - 10 years