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• Taking AI to a new REALM: Space Park Leicester team develops service for space-optimised machine learning

  Date: 18 Feb 2026

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/ai-realm-space-optimised-machine-learning

  Research by University of Leicester aims to accelerate the adoption of AI in space missions, offering an end-to-end, space-optimised machine...

• Leicester experts investigate ways scientists can safely collect extra-terrestrial samples

  Date: 16 Feb 2026

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/leicester-experts-extra-terrestrial-samples

  New paper by team based at Space Park Leicester explores challenges of safely collecting extra-terrestrial materials for their Double Walled...

• UK delegation travels to India to meet first cohort studying Apollo-Leicester course

  Date: 4 Feb 2026

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/uk-delegation-india-first-cohort-apollo-leicester-course

  A University of Leicester delegation travelled to India to meet the very first cohort of students on a degree which will see them split their...

• Space research legacy explored in UK Space Agency and DSIT visit to University of Leicester’s space hub

  Date: 13 Jan 2026

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/uk-space-agency-dsit-visit-space-park

  University of Leicester hosted a delegation of senior staff at Space Park Leicester from the UK Space Agency and the Department of Science,...

• 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...