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Posted October 19, 2016
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tinyE: Queen Elizabeth would be a good start. :D
For the engine your quips could work as a perpetuum mobile.
Posted October 19, 2016
Experts will work through the night to assess the @ESA_EDM situation - next news will be tomorrow morning at 10:00
Oh dear. :-/

Well, at least the orbiter seems okay. It's the most important I guess (as it'll be used by next probes, and also will make nice high-res photos in the incoming years). But, yeah. Still hmpf.
Posted October 19, 2016
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Telika: Can it ?
Not before AMERICA!
Posted October 19, 2016
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Breja: Poland can into space!
we are already there :-P

and the story goes
Post edited October 20, 2016 by tburger
Posted October 20, 2016
Well.. exploded on impact is still landed :P
Posted October 20, 2016
Anyone else thinking about sabotage?
Posted October 20, 2016
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Maxvorstadt: Anyone else thinking about sabotage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
Posted October 20, 2016

Experts will work through the night to assess the @ESA_EDM situation - next news will be tomorrow morning at 10:00
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Telika: Oh dear. :-/

Well, at least the orbiter seems okay. It's the most important I guess (as it'll be used by next probes, and also will make nice high-res photos in the incoming years). But, yeah. Still hmpf.
Worse problem is that if this is supposed to be a test of the technology set to be used for the 2020 rover, if this failed, it may be back to the drawing board for that one, and 2020 becoming who knows when.
Mars is hard, landing especially, and so far only NASA managed it, so wouldn't be surprised if it failed. And ESA is coming after pretty much a failure with Philae too.
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Telika: Where is Philae ?
Over there.
Posted October 20, 2016
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Maxvorstadt: Anyone else thinking about sabotage?
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tinyE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
Is that classical music?
Posted October 20, 2016
If they can I would suggest a life-sized replica of the TARDIS. :o)
Posted October 20, 2016
It would seem that it went splat, so the answer to the question in the topic title would be no. Still.
Posted October 20, 2016
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tinyE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
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Breja: Is that classical music?
It is to me! :D
Posted October 20, 2016
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Breja: Is that classical music?
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tinyE: It is to me! :D
You haven't seen Star Trek Beyond, have you? :D
Posted October 20, 2016
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Cavalary: It would seem that it went splat, so the answer to the question in the topic title would be no. Still.
Aw damn.

Still, this doesn't seem to impact the 2020 project much, I hear it's quite advanced already and not endangered by Schiaparelli's failure. Wishing them good luck with that, they certainly mustn't feel extremely encouraged right now.

Also, Philae's last moment localization is great unexpected news. Don't know how I missed this. I had stopped checking the rosetta blog for a long while, while I was away, and when I got back I only got the news of Rosetta's terminal kamikaze move. I didn't know there had been this, inbetween. It's great. It was really a little missing symbolic jigsaw piece that was nagging me.
Posted October 20, 2016
I have no idea, but my country has a parliament full of men and women that I would just love to be shipped of to Mars.
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