A mission to one of the most promising leads in our search for where life could exist beyond Earth has been explored at Space Park Leicester.
The University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy welcomed senior staff from the UK Space Agency and Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) for a visit that explored the past, present and future of space research at the University.
Researchers in Leicester are leading an international project using satellites to help curb methane emissions from landfill sites.
Space scientists at the University of Leicester are marking the final year before the cutting-edge instrument they designed and built will arrive in orbit around the planet Mercury.
A transformative and successful safety testing campaign for future radioisotope power systems, conducted in the framework of the European Space Agency’s ENDURE (European Devices Using Radioisotope Energy) programme, has been completed by a team at Space Park Leicester and Perpetual Atomics Ltd.
Professor Leigh Fletcher, Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Leicester, will deliver the 2025 ESA Distinguished Lecture for the European Space Agency on 30 October.
A major project which wants the Earth’s peatlands to be properly managed to help curb climate change has staged its latest event at Space Park Leicester.
If we are to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we’ll have to know what challenges await them when they get there. Enter M-MATISSE.
Whether you have aspirations to venture out into the cosmos, or to bring it back to Earth, Space Park Leicester will be demonstrating how Leicester expertise is enabling different approaches to space exploration at a national conference this month.
Space Park Leicester scientists have passed a key European Space Agency review, and now will proceed to design the Qualification Model of a Double-Walled Isolator that could handle and curate samples from a Mars Sample Return mission.
