Beagle 2 Gets Welcome Donation For Critical Instrument Payload

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Express at June 3, 2002 12:00 PM

The Wellcome Trust biomedical research charity has agreed to help finance the mass spectrometer which is central to Beagle 2 and is being pioneered by the group at the Open University led by Beagle 2 Lead Scientist Professor Colin Pillinger. The Trust is providing £2.6m to pay for construction of the miniature instrument and to investigate how the technology may be extended beyond that developed for a mission to Mars.