Cover Image: Members of the IDE Systems team at Space Park Leicester – Credits SPL Sometimes a business decision comes down to spreadsheets and strategy. This time, it also came down to a rock from the Moon. IDE Systems, an engineering company specialising in systems engineering and safety assurance, has become the latest organisation to
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ESA’s Hera spacecraft is in the final weeks of its approach to the Didymos asteroid system, and its scientists have one clear job: finish the experiment that NASA’s DART mission started. In our new video interview, Michael Küppers, Project Scientist of the Hera mission at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), walks us through what
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Milani and Juventas are the two CubeSats carried by ESA’s Hera to Didymos. What each will measure, how they will land, and why it matters for planetary defence.
Milani and Juventas: The Two CubeSats Riding Along With ESA’s Hera Asteroid Probe Read More »
Space needs marketers, project managers, lawyers and finance staff as well as engineers. What a five-day Leicester course can and cannot do.
Working in Space Without Being an Engineer: Who the Industry Needs Now Read More »
How ISS crews celebrate Halloween: costumes, an orange jack-o’-lantern carved in 2009 and spooky photos, documented by NASA from 2009 to 2021.
Halloween on the International Space Station: How Astronauts Celebrate in Orbit Read More »
ESA’s Hera heads to the Didymos–Dimorphos asteroids to measure what NASA’s DART impact really did. What it will measure, why it matters and its limits.
ESA’s Hera and NASA’s DART: What Europe’s Asteroid Mission Will Measure at Didymos Read More »
What the three-day Executive Guide to Space at Space Park Leicester covers on 11 to 13 November 2026, and who it suits.
Executive Guide to Space at Space Park Leicester: Three Days Inside a Space Mission Read More »
An aerospace engineer explains what the General Dynamics MO-Nav test on Talon-A shows about GPS-denied navigation at Mach 5: Doppler, tracking loops and IMUs.
MO-Nav on Talon-A: What a Mach 5 GPS-Denied Test Proves Read More »
Three Halloween-worthy objects in the night sky: the Ghost Nebula, the Witch Head Nebula and Algol, the Demon Star. What they are, how far away they are and which you can see.
Scariest Objects in Space: Ghost Nebula, Witch Head Nebula and the Demon Star Read More »
Voyager Technologies’ Griffin-1 lunar lander finished spin, acoustic, vibration and thermal vacuum tests at NASA JPL. Here is what each test proves before launch.
Griffin-1 Lunar Lander Completes Environmental Testing at NASA JPL Read More »
