David Southwood from the Cassini mission to Saturn, landed successfully on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Southwood later described the Huygens landing as "the highest point of all" from his ESA career. Southwood had also led the team which developed the magnetometer on the main Cassini spacecraft. During 2003 ESA launched a largely British lander, Beagle 2, which was carried to Mars by the larger Mars Express spacecraft. All contact with Beagle 2 was lost before it reached the surface of Mars, and the project was considered a failure. ESA was heavily criticised for its management of the mission. Southwood suffered public criticism
Mars Surveyor 2001 October 24, 2001. After aerobraking from October 2001 until January 2002, "Mars Odyssey" began mapping the planet on February 19, 2002. By December 15, 2010 the orbiter broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3,340 days of operation, claiming the title from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which had arrived sooner than Odyssey but failed in 2006. Some other active orbital missions during this period include Mars Express (since 2003) and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (since 2006), in addition there were a few landers and flybys. Later, the lander spacecraft was adapted to be used in the "Mars Phoenix