MPs blame lack of cash for failure of Beagle 2
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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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But we aren't really sure how Troubled Euro satnav initiative Galileo took something of a beating during a UK Parliamentary debate on Monday.â¦
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School trip provision is "patchy" and requires Â£30m more of government money, according to MPs.
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A failed European mission to land a probe on Mars last year was hampered by late funding from the British government and tensions between groups conducting the flight, a parliamentary committee said Tuesday.
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Scientists are no closer to discovering what happened to the ill-fated space probe Beagle 2, which vanished while attempting to land on Mars, according to an investigation released Tuesday.
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RIP Biggles The UK Ministry of Defence is to invest Â£124m in developing a new pilotless plane.â¦
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Expensive V Bomber mishap A 16 foot jet-powered replica of a Vickers Valient which cost model-maker Simon Steggall Â£15k, two years' graft, and one wife, crashed and burned on its fourth flight, The Sun reports.â¦
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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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Any one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found.
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The failure of the UK's e-university was blamed on weak marketing by the higher education minister.
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If there had been as many people taking care of the Beagle 2 project as there have been reports into why the lander got lost, we&#39;d have reams of data on the composition of the Martian soil flooding back from a perfectly functioning vehicle, right now.
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MPs are demanding action after a routine software upgrade at the Department for Work and Pensions left 80% of desktop PCs unable to link to core mainframe-based social security systems.
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Scotland does not have enough police resources to do to the job, a parliament inquiry says.
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Scientists name an asteroid after the professor responsible for the failed Beagle 2 mission to Mars.
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BRITAIN&#39;S Beagle 2 mission to Mars was last night blasted as a shambles done &quot;on the cheap&quot;. The lander was scheduled to touch down on Christmas Day last year and search for past and present life.
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But no need for UK Space Agency MPs have called on the government to give the lead to the UK's space industry and expand its vision to include funding launches and even manned spaceflight.â¦
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Due to a systems error... A committee of MPs has said the government has received little of the compensation due from EDS for problems with tax credit IT.â¦