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.
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.
The Winchcombe meteorite, a rare carbonaceous meteorite which crashed onto a driveway in Gloucestershire, has been found to contain extra-terrestrial water and organic compounds that reveal insights into the origin of Earth’s oceans.