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Communications and spacecraft operations

During each orbit, Mars Express will spend some time turned towards the planet for instrument observations and some time turned towards Earth for communications with ground stations. The special UHF antenna will receive data from the Beagle 2 lander on the surface each time the spacecraft passes overhead.
Data collected by Beagle 2 and the orbiter instruments will be transmitted to an ESA ground station at New Norcia near Perth, Australia at a rate of up to 230 kbps. Between 0.5 and 5 Gbits of scientific data will be downlinked from the spacecraft to Earth every day.

Maybe Sharni will get us the hot scoops from the cross town receiver. (well... cross continent)

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/ar...x.cfm?fareaid=1

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