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• Scientists hail final flyby for Mercury mission with Leicester technology

  Date: 10 Jan 2025

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  Scientists who led instrument for the BepiColombo spacecraft comment as it makes final flyby at Mercury

• First glimpse of Mercury for BepiColombo

  Date: 28 Sep 2021

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  The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, carrying instrumentation created with Leicester expertise, will make the first of six flybys of its...

• Leicester scientist discusses BepiColombo mission to Mercury

  Date: 6 Jul 2017

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  Professor Emma Bunce, Principal Investigator of the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) - one of the main instruments on the upcoming...

• Milestone reached for BepiColombo space mission

  Date: 31 Aug 2018

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  Science orbiters stacked together, one carrying space instrument developed at Leicester.

• Leicester scientists look to Venus for close-range BepiColombo flyby

  Date: 23 Jul 2021

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  Planetary scientists at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ are braced for a flood of new data from one of the closest-ever flybys of Venus.

• Innovative UK-led space technology takes off on BepiColombo mission to Mercury

  Date: 17 Oct 2018

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  As the BepiColombo spacecraft sets off on its seven year journey to explore the strange world of Mercury this week, it will be carrying a piece of...

• Exosens invests £1m to propel space research and innovation for the METEOR programme in partnership with Space Park Leicester

  Date: 27 Sep 2024

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  Exosens has worked with Â鶹ÊÓƵ academics for more than 25 years, on projects such as the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer...

• Dr Suzie Imber appears on BBCs The One Show discussing success in Astronauts programme and Universitys involvement in upcoming BepiColombo mission to Mercury

  Date: 10 Nov 2017

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  Dr Suzie Imber (pictured) from our Department of Physics and Astronomy, who recently won BBC Two’s ‘Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?’, has...

• Colourful craters and insights into Mercury’s mysterious surface showcased by Leicester scientists

  Date: 17 Sep 2018

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers involved in upcoming BepiColombo mission to Mercury will be presenting at New Scientist Live 2018.

• Award-winning TV space scientist explores Space Park Leicester’s latest innovations

  Date: 7 Apr 2025

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  Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Chancellor of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, recently had an exclusive tour of its £100 million science and innovation...