Acclaimed Leicester space artist Matt Turner will embark on an exciting research journey to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center USA to gather inspiration and ideas for an exhibition to be revealed at Space Park Leicester in the autumn.
Space Park Leicester is establishing a new collaboration with AWE which will explore manufacturing development, testing and qualification methods to support future space science and exploration missions. The collaboration will bring additional employment opportunities to Leicester.
While the UK has been experiencing warm autumnal weather, a team of planetary scientists has found that Saturn’s late northern summer is experiencing a cooling trend, as huge planetary-scale flows of air have reversed direction as autumn approaches.
Massive burst of X-rays detected by University of Leicester astronomers indicates material three times the mass of Earth burning up in a black hole
A group of scientists have this week been collecting samples of rock from the NatureScot National Nature Reserve (NNR) as part of the NASA and European Space Agency (ESA)’s Mars Sample Return Campaign.
Executive Director of Space Park Leicester Professor Richard Ambrosi, a distinguished figure in the field, has been elected to the Board of the USRA, cementing the university's influential role in the partnership.
Scientists from across the world have today revealed their analyses of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected. This exceptional event, nicknamed the BOAT (Brightest Of All Time), was discovered by NASA’s Fermi and Swift satellites last October, and University of Leicester researchers have played crucial roles
Dr Simon Bennett explores the nature and consequences of pressures on NASA by examining three of the space agency’s most dramatic failures in this public talk.
Space Park Leicester is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Richard Ambrosi as its new Executive Director. Professor Ambrosi is an expert in space instrumentation and space nuclear power systems and will lead the development of the innovative research, enterprise and education cluster.
British astronaut Tim Peake will be on hand to declare Space Park Leicester officially open at a special ceremony next spring.
