Feb 11 2004
From The Space Library
ESA and UK Science Minister Lord David Sainsbury announced that ESA and the United Kingdom would conduct a joint inquiry into the failure of the Beagle 2 Mars lander. ESA Inspector-General René Bonnefoy would oversee the inquiry, which would investigate the reasons for the mission's failure and establish lessons that ESA could apply in future missions. Beagle 2, a component of ESA's Mars Express mission, had failed to communicate with ESA after the time of its scheduled landing on Mars on 25 December 2003. The Beagle 2 Management Board had declared the spacecraft lost on 6 February 2004. (ESA, “UK and ESA Announce Beagle 2 Inquiry ~ Investigation To Learn Lessons from Mars Lander,” ESA news release 9-2004, 11 February 2004.
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