Compilation :
Mars Express en Route to Mars
Mars Express and Beagle 2 : the Final Burst
Beagle 2 : Europe's Mars Lander
Searching for Water and Life on Mars

Mars Express- En route to Mars
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On 2nd June 2003, ESA's first planetary mission, Mars Express, waited atop a Starsem Soyuz launcher to begin its six month journey to the red planet.
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While the anxious controllers at the operations centre looked on, a perfect lift-off was celebrated by the visitors and by ESA's Director of Science, David Southwood.
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Sound bite: David Southwood.
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For the engineers and the scientists, this was a special moment in what had been a three-year construction; the last ten weeks at Baikonur, integrating the spacecraft, the Beagle-2 lander, the launcher and the Fregat upper stage that would inject Mars Express into deep space.
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With the spacecraft safely enclosed in its protective fairing, the whole launcher assembly was rolled out by rail to the launch pad, on 29 May.
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The unseen last stages of the launch were tracked by Starsem's real time animation - finally showing sep