An interplanetary spacecraft operations expert who played a pivotal role in one of the European Space Agency’s most ambitious planetary missions will speak at the UK’s largest planetarium in Leicester next month.
Using observations from a NASA suborbital rocket, an international team that includes a University of Leicester space scientist has, for the first time, successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields.
How the Sun influences the atmosphere, space weather and habitability of a planet, as well as the space between the stars, could be investigated by two proposed UK space missions, led by the University of Leicester.
A leading Leicester researcher will give a free talk on an exciting new space mission which will use a cutting-edge x-ray telescope developed in the city.
Work on building a cutting-edge x-ray telescope has been completed and the final instrument handed over, to be integrated into a spacecraft that will make new insights into the solar winds that bombard our planet’s magnetosphere.
A 1 September opening date has been announced for Dock 3 – 5: workspaces and light industrial units attracting high tech and innovative businesses in Space City
A cutting-edge ‘space battery’ has been subjected to extreme vibrations to test its resilience for the harsh environment of a rocket launch – and passed with flying colours.
Space Park Leicester has successfully utilised its advanced satellite system to capture near real-time images of Hurricane Beryl
Artists with a love of astronomy are being given the opportunity to play a key role in designing a mission patch to celebrate the work of Space Park Leicester.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists led by the University of Leicester observed the region above Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot to discover a variety of previously unseen features. The region, previously believed to be unremarkable in nature, hosts a variety of intricate structures
