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Odyssey Moon may use Beagle instrument

AUG 20, 2009
Physics Today

Space.com : Project managers for the British Beagle lander program are seeking redemption—on the moon—nearly six years after their spacecraft disappeared on Mars. Collin Pillinger who headed the unsuccessful Beagle Mars project is in discussion with the commercial " Odyssey Moon ” program to fly a backup version of Beagle’s most powerful instrument on board the Odyssey lunar lander

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