Talk:Mars Express

message: why is the italian space agency pointed out here ?
Italy is part of the ESA and all the space agencys from ESA's member countries took part in the programm, right ?
e.g. CNES, DLR, ...
i have corrected information about "why it is called express" according to reality and information from ESA--Kyknos 19:27, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Italian Space Agency

message: Hey, it looks like the main image for this article will be "deleted soon without warning".  We need to find one that's public domain....--Koeppen 01:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good luck. Most ESA images are like that, including every image either released through press or the PDS (which is about as rare as an albino unicorn). Either all those images are deleted, or the policy changes. That fact that this things has been orbiting Mars for 2 and a half years, and only one image has been put in the article really tells me that not all is as it should be. But on the other hand, the Mars Global Surveyor has been around for a decade, and there are only 4 images for it. Anyways, back to MEX. If you can go to the PDS site and process the images they have put in there, that will quite probably be public domain, as far as I can tell (Derivative work?). Press images are sometimes ugly, and always garish anyway, so it would be an improvement over the lone propaganda image anyway.--Planetary 10:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image necessary 

message: Does the ESA not release all images to the public domain? 98.196.164.63 (talk) 00:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See . I think we can restore images when a "fair use" claim has been made. (sdsds - talk) 01:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that more than a year has gone by without any pictures at all taken by this spacecraft appearing on the article page. Does anybody know enough about policy to determine if the ESA conditions of (image) use page allows this? In paticular: "You may use ESA images or videos for educational or informational purposes. The publicly released ESA images may be reproduced without fee, on the following conditions: Credit ESA as the source of the images..." Davidelit (talk) 06:18, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Looks like the bot removed all the pictures

message: The 7.5 h figure given for the orbital period is incorrect, at the level of significance indicated.  6.7 h is the correct figure, at the start of the mission. This value has also changed with time, and is now  ~7.0 h.  These values were derived from the ESA-provided trajectory information.
An appropriate citation for these parameters would be the mission overview, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ESASP1240....3C but this gives a figure of 6.75 h, which also seems inaccurate.  The value given in the article could be changed to '7 h', and that would be accurate to the given precision.
Irbdavid (talk) 15:29, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orbital period 

message: http://sci.esa.int/director-desk/54999-working-life-extensions-for-esas-science-missions/
©Geni (talk) 03:18, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: source for mission extension until the end of 2016

message: Hi,
we've just retroactively licenced a lot of MEX imagery under CC, including 
May I suggest to replace the current infobox image with this one?
Thanks Mtrova (talk) 09:47, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  New infobox image 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion 

message: Here is an article from MSN that the ESA is upgrading the software for the orbiter.  The article can be found at A Mars Spacecraft Has Been Running on Windows 98 Era Software for 19 Years, But No More.  Rjluna2 (talk) 15:01, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  MSN's A Mars Spacecraft Has Been Running on Windows 98 Era Software for 19 Years, But No More