Beagle 2 Official Inquiry Released

smasch writes "The ESA/UK Commission of Inquiry into Beagle 2 has released their report (PDF) on why the Mars lander Beagle 2 failed. While the report does not name a single cause for the failure, it does name several problems including the lack of funding, lack of margin in the design, and treating Beagle 2 as a scientific instrument rather than as a spacecraft. The report also made nineteen recommendations to prevent these sorts of failures on future missions. We have previously mentioned the Beagle 2 failure, although the official report was not released to the public at that time. The original story from MarsToday.com is available here."

Comments

bureaucracy in, garbage out

[edward.virtually@pob]

um, the real reason the beagle 2 failed is very simple: they told it to land in a crater. see my comment on the previous mention of this subject on slashdot for four urls to articles supporting this.

wow typical excuse

[cheekyboy]

Thats about the typical reason for any failed project.