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"ESA Flight Operations Director Michel Denis has confirmed that they have lost contact with the probe.

The team is now hoping to pick up a signal from the Mars Orbiter, but it's not looking hopeful"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/19/exomars-space-...

Wow, the news coverage is really awful. They have not confirmed anything yet.

While ESA is nowhere as good as NASA at public outreach[1], does it really suck that we have to wait an extra day to find out what happened 100 million miles away?

[1] NASA probably is overly concerned about public outreach, to the point of choosing missions that look cool or sound cool over those that actually work or do new science.

The original title was: “No Signal from European Schiaparelli Mars Lander”. I was talking about trigger-happy, misleading coverage from the BBC and Telegraph, not ESA.

that's the orbiter. the lander status is unknown; ESA is waiting for signal replay from mars express.

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