Photo Credits: Space Park Leicester A company that builds satellite ground software has just paid for a new pig fence. It sounds like an odd pairing, but it shows how a space research hub can matter well beyond the launch pad. CGI, an international IT and business consulting firm with a team at Space
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NASA has rewritten Artemis: Artemis III is now an Earth-orbit test, Gateway is paused and the first crewed Moon landing is targeted for 2028. Here is what changed and why.
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PROMISE is a six-wheeled, nuclear-powered rover NASA plans to send to the lunar South Pole in late 2028, built from Curiosity and Perseverance spare parts.
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NASA’s Moon Base headlines of $10 billion and $5 billion are contract ceilings, not budgets. Here is how IDIQ contracts work and which numbers reflect firm work.
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US deep-tech sensor company SAAZ Micro has opened SAAZ Micro UK Ltd at Space Park Leicester to design and build infrared, ultraviolet, visible and neuromorphic imaging sensors for space, astronomy and defence.
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Cover Image Credits: Mars Express & HRSC Mars has the largest volcanoes in the Solar System, yet nobody knows whether any of them is still alive. A new study based on data from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) offers the most intriguing hint so far: a puff of hydrogen chloride rising from fresh fissures
NASA’s Swift Observatory re-entered on 4 November 2026 after 22 years. Here is the re-entry status and how Leicester will keep its science alive until 2028.
Swift Returns to Earth After 22 Years, and Leicester Keeps Its Science Alive Read More »
NASA’s Swift Observatory is falling back to Earth after a failed commercial rescue. A technical look at the drag physics, the Katalyst LINK attempt, reentry forecasts and debris risk.
Swift Observatory Reentry: What Went Wrong and What We Learned Read More »
Cover Image Credits: Universe Today The International Space Station is now set to operate through 2030 under a July 2026 agreement between NASA and Roscosmos, and no successor is in orbit yet. Four separate efforts are racing to fill the gap: Russia’s planned ROS station, China’s Tiangong, India’s Bharatiya Antariksh Station and a set of
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Photo Credits in the image On November 27, 2025, a Soyuz MS-28 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan sent two Russian cosmonauts and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams to the International Space Station. The crew reached the station as planned. The launch pad did not come through as well. About 10 seconds after liftoff, the
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