The plaque, unveiled at the M Shed in Bristol, recognises Colin Pillinger who led the 2003 probe mission to Mars.

Christmas Day, 2003, should have been one of the happiest days of Colin Pillinger‘s life. It was the day Beagle 2, a spacecraft he conceived of, proposed, and developed, was supposed to land on Mars.

Beagle 2 on the surface of Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image: HiRISE/NASA/University of Leicester. The UK’s Beagle 2 ...

The Mars Express spacecraft, carrying the Beagle 2 lander, was launched on 2 June last year, arriving in the vicinity of Mars in December. The separation of Beagle 2 from Mars Express occurred on 19 ...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft dropped the tiny, 30-kilogram Beagle 2 lander onto the Martian surface on December 25, 2003. Beagle 2 carried a powerful suite of instruments that ...

The UK-led Beagle-2 Mars lander, which hitched a ride on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was lost on Mars since 2003, has been found in images taken by a NASA orbiter at the Red Planet. Beagle-2 was ...

being undertaken by the Beagle 2 team to assess the current situation. A Odyssey will send out a series of ‘hails’ which, if picked up by Beagle, will enable the lander’s receiver to lock onto the ...

Interplanetary space probes used to be the domain of giant governments, or conglomerates of smaller governments who couldn’t hope to field a space program on their own. Any attempt by one European ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Britain's long lost spacecraft Beagle 2 has miraculously been found, ...

The UK-made Beagle 2 lander has been found on the surface of Mars, more than a decade after it was thought to be lost forever. The 2003 launch was the result of a collaboration of UK academics, whose ...

The first real opportunity for the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter to hear a signal from the Beagle 2 lander passed in silence. January 7, 2004 -- Today's first real opportunity for ...