22/04/2026
Space Park Perspectives
From a tense landing in 2012 to over a decade of discovery, Professor John Bridges reflects on Space Park Leicester’s role in one of humanity’s most ambitious planetary missions.
From a tense landing in 2012 to over a decade of discovery, Professor John Bridges reflects on Space Park Leicester’s role in one of humanity’s most ambitious planetary missions.
A Leicester team has revealed how technology it is working on is seeking to address the technical challenges facing scientists who want to safely collect extra-terrestrial materials.
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.
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 leading Open University expert will reveal how studying extreme environments on Earth plays a vital role in planning life-detection space missions at a free talk in Leicester.
Dr Justin Filiberto, Deputy Chief of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center will deliver a talk on ‘Assessing the Evidence for Active Basaltic Volcanism on Venus: Current Limitations and Future Prospects’.
Exploring Mars and the latest results from the ground-breaking James Webb Space Telescope will be among the hot topics up for discussion at a major conference coming to Leicester.
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.