10/12/2025
University of Leicester lecturer wins Global Space Award
A University of Leicester lecturer has won the Science Breakthrough Award at the Global Space Awards for her work on a mission relating to Mars.
A University of Leicester lecturer has won the Science Breakthrough Award at the Global Space Awards for her work on a mission relating to Mars.
Dr Beatriz Sanchez-Cano, from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy has been recognised for her leadership of the Mars Magnetosphere Atmosphere Ionosphere and Space-weather Science( M-MATTISSE) mission
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.
Two space missions that involve the University of Leicester are in the final stages of the selection process that will see one successful mission taken forward by ESA for launch