David Southwood, head of the European Space Agency's Science Directorate, delivered the news.
"I have, I am afraid, to make a sad announcement. Today when we were in conditions we thought were very good to get communications between Mars Express, the mothership, and Beagle 2, the baby, we did not get any content of a signal nor indeed a signal from the surface.
"This is not the end of the story. We have more shots to play. But I have to say this is a setback. It makes me feel really very sad. Nonetheless I do not want to belittle the Beagle 2 team. They got to Mars and maybe we will still hear from them."
They are still not giving up hope though.
More on
spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/status.html
Cheers,
~Al
  