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• Leicester researchers use satellites to tackle landfill methane leaks

  Date: 18 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/satellites-landfill-methane-leaks

  Research team from the School of Physics and Astronomy and Space Park Leicester is testing how space-based technology can help find leaks and then...

• Explore the silent night this festive season: space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock to give Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures on the BBC

  Date: 17 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/space-scientist-maggie-aderin-pocock-royal-institution-christmas-lectures

  University of Leicester’s Chancellor hosts the 2025 Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution, broadcast on BBC Four and iPlayer on 28th, 29th...

• Early-risers may catch “Father Christmas” on his way back to the North Pole via the skies above the UK

  Date: 17 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/father-christmas-skies-space-park-leicester

  The International Space Station is due to make a 'high pass' at 06:18 local time and, weather permitting, visible until around 06:23

• 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

• New funding to develop technology for first robots to weld in space

  Date: 3 Dec 2025

  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,...

• Research group including University of Leicester astronomers receives one of the world’s largest research prizes

  Date: 3 Dec 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/astronomers-world-largest-research-prize

  ENGRAVE group, which includes University of Leicester researchers, recognised with inaugural Into Change Award, worth DKK 8 million and awarded by...

• 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...