11/07/2025
The Mars mission that could prep for a human landing
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.
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.
A satellite developed by British academics and engineers, including expertise from the Space Park Leicester and the National Centre for Earth Observation, is set to become the first in the world to measure accurately the condition and carbon mass of the Earth’s forests from space
A spacecraft power system that combines the technological know-how of engineers and scientists at the University of Leicester and NASA Glenn has passed its first test with flying colours.
Ten of the UK’s leading experts in the field have been appointed to a new Strategic Advisory Board which will support the ongoing development of the University of Leicester’s Institute for Space and Space Park Leicester.
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).
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.
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.