Update from James Godfrey in the Mars Express control room at ESOC about 1 hour ago.

The signal from the spacecraft is now being modulated with telemetry – meaning that housekeeping information on the status and health of Mars Express is being downloaded.

During the flyby this morning, this modulation was turned off so as to concentrate all of the energy transmitted by the spacecraft into the main carrier radio signal and maximise the possibility of detecting the (very small!) changes in frequency as the spacecraft was accelerated by Phobos’ gravity.

Now that the most critical radio science measurements have been completed, we have been able to turn the modulation back on so that we can receive the telemetry data.

As expected: everything looks OK!