Europe's Mars orbiter not sending status data: ESA

Ground controllers reported a break Sunday in status data from a European-Russian Mars orbiter after it released a tiny lander on a three-day trek to the Red Planet's surface. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was sending signals home, but "we don't have telemetry at the moment", flight director Michel Denis of the ExoMars mission said via live webcast from mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. Ground controllers were "working towards restoring telemetry", according to a tweet from ESA Operations.