Dr. Alex Ellery is the head of the Robotics Research group at the Surrey Space Centre in the United Kingdom. He is also Senior Lecturer in Astronautics & Space Systems at The School of Engineering at Kingston University

Kingston University

Kingston University is a public research university located in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, United Kingdom. It was originally founded in 1899 as Kingston Technical Institute, a polytechnic, and became a university in 1992....

. Dr. Ellery is currently working on the design of a post-Beagle 2

Beagle 2

Beagle 2 was an unsuccessful British landing spacecraft that formed part of the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission. All contact with it was lost upon its separation from the Mars Express six days before its scheduled entry into the atmosphere...

 UK Mars mission proposal called Vanguard, to build on the UK-led Beagle 2 mission, nominally for a 2007 launch on a Mars Express

Mars Express

Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency . The Mars Express mission is exploring the planet Mars, and is the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. "Express" originally referred to the speed and efficiency with which the spacecraft was...

 bus - led by Professor Colin Pillinger

Colin Pillinger

Colin Trevor Pillinger, CBE, is a planetary scientist at the Open University in the UK. He was the principal investigator for the British Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and has done much work studying a group of Martian meteorites.In May 2005 Pillinger was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.-Early...

 at the Open University's

Open University

The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...

Planetary & Space Science Research Institute.

External links

• Interview with Dr. Ellery
• Dr. Ellery Info
• Beagle 2 Home