16/12/2025
Leicester researchers use satellites to tackle landfill methane leaks
Researchers in Leicester are leading an international project using satellites to help curb methane emissions from landfill sites.
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.
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.