3.45pm update -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attempt to contact Beagle 2 ends in failure Adam Blenford and agencies Monday January 26, 2004 A fresh attempt to make contact with the missing Mars probe Beagle 2 has ended in failure, disappointed British scientists admitted today. More than a month after the £50 million probe was scheduled to land on the surface of the red planet, mission scientists from the Open University have still received no data from Mars. The latest attempt to establish contact with Beagle 2 was made over the weekend, after a 10-day pause designed to force the lander's internal computer into...