Leicester’s space heritage and the spirit of exploration have been brilliantly captured in the winning design of Space Park Leicester’s inaugural Mission Patch Competition.
A cutting-edge ‘space battery’ has been subjected to extreme shock levels to test its resilience for the harsh environment of a launch or planetary surface landing – and passed with flying colours.
A multi-million-pound satellite and information firm committed to solving problems on Earth has joined Space Park Leicester.
AEGION, the leading Indian company specialising in advanced metallurgy and materials engineering, has joined the Space Park Leicester community at its £100 million state-of-the-art facility.
A rare opportunity for an innovative space or space-enabled businesses to take lease of a prime office at Space Park Leicester becomes available.
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.
