Anyone know if there will be any live media coverage or internet viewing of the Christmas day landing?

I did find a landing time.

per this site... here

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This link promises a live video stream of the landing while this one deals with satellite coverage. These links are from the ESA, there might be other sites that will show this unfold. I plan on doing more checking before Christmas and will post them unless someone here beats me to it.

Thanks Archer.


The second link gives a great detailed schedule. However, it does not state a time zone. Would you mind converting it to UT or even central time zone time?

Regardless, it looks like the Beagle lands Chrismas Eve for us.

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The times listed in the PDF files are CET (Central Europe Time) which is UTC+1. Subtract 7 hours from the times listed on that site for your location.

Thanks.

That puts landing activity begining at 7:25 pm Christmas Eve central US time and landing around 8:30 pm.

Heres the pdf file of their schedule as found in your second site location....
here

Can't wait to see if they actually will say...."The Beagle too has landed".

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You know, I was thinking the other day about the name "Beagle-2."

I don't think the American space program could name a spacecraft the "Beagle-2" (or the Beagle) if we wanted to. There would be a political uproar over the fact that we'd be naming a spacecraft in honor of Darwin's voyage. Darwin, and his "theory" would have to accompanied by a biblical character's name attached to some space probe, to give it "equal time." Forget the name "Darwin" - fundamentalists would scream to high heaven over that one.

We have reached a very sad state here in the USA.

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We'll just tell people its named for Snoopy.

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I suspect there would be less trouble than you would think. The bigger issue for the U.S. might be whether or not the probe should be named a "dog".

The British have the advantage with a name like "Beagle" as it sounds a little like the "Beatles" and that proved rather fruitful.

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Then why didn't we just name it Ringo?

Hmmm. Because that sounds like "Bingo" which is a game of chance in which most loose (unless you can play 12 cards like my mother and grandmother)!

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