Professor Mark Sims who has helped shape the UK’s role in international space exploration has been chosen to attend the NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO) Systems Concepts and Integration (SCI) Panel 56th Business Meeting taking place in Bath next month.
A professor who has been the driving force in advancing space research and exploration at the University of Leicester for more than four decades has handed over the reins of the newly named Space Projects and Instrumentation Group.
A behind-the-scenes account of Leicester’s role in one of the most innovative missions to explore life on Mars has been released online just days before the mission landing’s 20th anniversary.
Academics and professionals from Space Park Leicester will be on hand at the 2023 UK Space Conference in Belfast next week to showcase the University of Leicester’s long-standing heritage of space science, engineering and space instrumentation product development.
The National Space Centre has announced that British European Space Agency astronaut reserve Meganne Christian will be joining them and a huge array of speakers and special guests at this year’s UK in Space Festival on 02 July as their keynote speaker.
Two of Leicester’s first space scientists have returned to open the region’s state-of-the-art Space Research Centre, more than 60 years on.
