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• Sycamore Gap sapling planted in University of Leicester Botanic Garden

  Date: 16 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/nick-bailey-sycamore-gap-botanic-garden

  The University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden is now home to one of the iconic Sycamore Gap saplings from the National Trust

• University of Leicester lecturer wins Global Space Award

  Date: 10 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/lecturer-global-space-award

  Dr Beatriz Sanchez-Cano recognised for her leadership of the Mars Magnetosphere Atmosphere Ionosphere and Space-weather Science (M-MATTISSE) mission

• Japanese space companies explore collaborating with the UK at Space Park Leicester

  Date: 10 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/japanese-space-companies-collaborating-space-park-leicester

  Representatives from seven innovative Japanese start-ups visited Space Park Leicester as part of the J-StarX SpaceTech Acceleration Programme.

• University of Leicester telescope to launch next Spring

  Date: 4 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/telescope-launch-spring-smile

  The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission is led by the University of Leicester

• Perpetual Atomics and QSA Global achieve breakthrough in americium ceramic fuel pelleting for space power systems

  Date: 2 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/perpetual-atomics-qsa-global-americium-ceramic-fuel-pelleting

  University spin-out works with QSA Global to develop a ceramic americium pellet via an industrially scalable method that can be directly...

• Africa’s forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds

  Date: 27 Nov 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/africa-forests-absorbing-emitting-carbon

  Analysis led by University of Leicester shows the African continent lost approximately 106 billion kilograms of forest biomass per year between...

• Mercury mission carrying Leicester instrument starts final year of its long journey

  Date: 21 Nov 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/mercury-bepi-mission-leicester-instrument-final-journey

  Space scientists at the University of Leicester are marking the final year before the cutting-edge instrument they designed and built will arrive...

• ‘Worms in space’ experiment aims to investigate the biological effects of spaceflight

  Date: 20 Nov 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/worms-space-experiment-biological-effects-spaceflight

  Universities of Leicester and Exeter collaborate on mission to send nematode worms to the International Space Station in a ‘Petri Pod’ designed...

• Space Park Leicester and Perpetual Atomics achieve historic first in radioisotope heater unit safety testing

  Date: 19 Nov 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/space-park-leicester-perpetual-atomics-radioisotope-heater-unit-safety-testing

  Success for University of Leicester and spinout company Perpetual Atomics Ltd as containment system undergoes impact test campaign and a leap...

• Leicester Earth Observation expert unravels SpaceX spiral phenomenon for BBC’s The Sky at Night

  Date: 17 Nov 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/earth-observation-expert-spacex-spiral-phenomenon

  Professor Paul Monks gives his expert insight for the long-running BBC astronomy TV programme.