Late funds hampered Beagle mission to Mars: MPs
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LONDON - The Beagle 2 space probe failed to land safely on Mars because the British government tried to fund the mission &quot;on the cheap,&quot; a parliamentary committee has charged.
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Britain's space programme relies on scientists from India and China more and more, MPs are told.
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NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding nearly all the asteroids that might pose a devastating hit to Earth, but there isn't enough money to pay for the task so it won't get done.
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The team behind Beagle 2, the failed mission to land on Mars and search for life, has unveiled potential plans for a successor, it emerged today.
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NASA will wait two years longer than planned and spend another $40 million to launch a half-billion-dollar probe to Mars because of an unspecified conflict of interest in the purchasing process, officials said Friday.
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The team behind the Beagle 2 mission to Mars has unveiled its design for the successor to the British spacecraft. At a London meeting, Colin Pillinger, lead scientist on the previous venture
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It was supposed to look for signs of life on Mars. Then it stopped showing signs of life itself. Built on a &quot;shoestring&quot; budget of pounds 45m, space probe Beagle 2 was designed to put Britain at the centre of the international space programme.
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THE failure of the Beagle 2 space mission to Mars has been blamed on the lack of government funding and an &quot;amateurish&quot; gentleman&#39;s agreement that allowed a key backer to pull out of the project.
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The craft that is to replace the space shuttle could be delayed because of recent budget reductions, the NASA administrator said.
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The team behind the Beagle 2 mission has unveiled its design for a successor to the British Mars lander.
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Description: An investigation into the loss of Britain&#39;s Beagle 2 spacecraft last December suggests the cause may have been unusual Martian weather.
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A lunar orbiter that Japan had planned to launch this year could face further delays, possibly until next year or later, because of a funding shortfall and problems developing the probe's information-gathering capabilities, Japan's space agency said Wednesday.
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An exhaustive study of NASA&#39;s options for repairing the Hubble Space Telescope suggests the currently planned robotic mission may cost too much money and might not be ready to fly before the vaunted observatory breaks down.
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Minister solicited most of the 17 donations totalling Â£103,155 that his campaign had failed to register
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THIS is what happens when you try to do something high-tech on the cheap. to land on Mars, failed because the country&#39;s government wanted a mission to the Red Planet &#39;on the cheap&#39;.
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Britain&#39;s ill-fated Beagle 2 mission to Mars failed partly because a lack of government funds left the project as an &quot;amateurish gentlemen&#39;s agreement&quot;, a committee of MPs says in a report today.
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US lawmakers criticise progress on the rebuilding of Iraq - saying only $1bn out of a $18bn fund has been spent.