Dr Sam Richards, Director of Meridian Space Command and a key figure at Space Park Leicester, is playing a pivotal role in Space Kidz India’s historic Mission ShakthiSAT—an all-girls spacecraft mission to lunar orbit.
In 2022, the Nord Stream pipeline rupture released 465,000 metric tons of hashtag#methane, the largest single release ever recorded – with the same near-term climate impact as 8+ million cars driven for a year!
A University of Leicester astronomer has paid tribute to a pioneering space telescope that has spent over a decade mapping our sky, as it ends its science observations today (15 Jan).
Director of the University of Leicester’s Institute for Space Professor Emma Bunce OBE is one of three new trustees of Royal Museums Greenwich, recently appointed by the Prime Minister.
A spacecraft carrying an instrument designed and built by University of Leicester scientists has completed its final flyby of Mercury, in preparation for entering orbit ready for the start of its start of the science mission in 2026/7.
Experts developing a ground-breaking satellite to detect, measure and monitor carbon dioxide as part of the fight against global warming
Dr Justin Filiberto, Deputy Chief of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center will deliver a talk on ‘Assessing the Evidence for Active Basaltic Volcanism on Venus: Current Limitations and Future Prospects’.
Space Park Leicester and Executive Director Richard Ambrosi would like to thank the organisers, Chair and Co-Chair of the 32nd Pontignano Conference for the opportunity to participate in the annual event that brings together forward thinking leaders from across the UK and Italy.
Scientists from the University of Leicester and NASA are working together on combining radioisotope power systems with high efficiency power convertor technology to enable spacecraft to venture into new frontiers.
Two European Space Agency Astronauts will appear at an international conference being held at Space Park Leicester to further strengthen space science relationships between the UK and Poland.
