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University of Leicester lecturer wins Global Space Award
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
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Japanese space companies explore collaborating with the UK at Space Park Leicester
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.
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New funding to develop technology for first robots to weld in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/funding-technology-first-robots-weld-space
University of Leicester and welding specialist TWI Ltd collaborating on a robot-mounted arc-welding system designed to support in-space repair,...
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Perpetual Atomics and QSA Global achieve breakthrough in americium ceramic fuel pelleting for space power systems
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...
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Africa’s forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
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...
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Mercury mission carrying Leicester instrument starts final year of its long journey
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...
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Royal Thai Government's programme to boost digital workforce sees 50 students study overseas with Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/thai-prime-minister-boost-digital-workforce-students-university-leicester
Thai students spent six weeks studying in the United Kingdom as part of the Thailand government’s plan to equip young people with the skills to...
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‘Worms in space’ experiment aims to investigate the biological effects of spaceflight
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...
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TV legend Johnny Ball gets University of Leicester staff, students and local schoolchildren thinking of numbers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/tv-legend-johnny-ball-thinking-numbers
The science and mathematics communicator visited University of Leicester to launch the NSPCC’s Number Day 2026 and joined Dr Josh Smalley, chemist...
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Space Park Leicester and Perpetual Atomics achieve historic first in radioisotope heater unit safety testing
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...