Projects across space, sustainability & science policy

UKspace Startup working group

Marketing audit

Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Wood (QEDJW) volunteering work

The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Wood (QEDJW) lies in the National Forest in north-west Leicestershire, 24.1km (15 miles) from Leicester, 6.4km (4 miles) from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 11.2km (7 miles) from Coalville, and close to the village of Normanton le Heath.

Green dossier

ESA Business Applications newsletter

ESA Business Applications Webinars

Ocean State Report 4

Design and data visualisation work supporting the communication of the fourth Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, translating complex ocean science, climate indicators and policy-relevant findings into accessible visual communication.

Point.IOT.MOOC

Point.MOOC is a free, self-directed online course that guides entrepreneurs and developers through the business and technical development of IoT products that use Galileo and other satellite positioning technologies. It forms part of the EU-funded POINT.IoT programme.

Food Security and Resilience Copernicus Hackathon

A 48-hour collaborative hackathon at the University of Leicester bringing together coders, researchers, scientists, designers and problem-solvers to develop solutions for food security and resilience using Copernicus Earth observation data.

Windy

Editorial and science-communication work supporting ECMWF and the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service in explaining how weather and atmospheric data can be made accessible through Windy, a widely used visual weather platform.

Bake In Space

Bake In Space was a space-food innovation project developing a safe, low-power system for baking fresh, crumb-free bread aboard the International Space Station. The project used bread as a practical technology demonstration for improving food quality, wellbeing and long-term self-sufficiency in human spaceflight.

ESA Industry Days

Living with Space 4.0

airTEXT — Air Quality at a Glance

Editorial and science-communication work for Riga airTEXT, a public air-quality forecasting service that combined Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service data with local high-resolution modelling to help Riga residents understand and prepare for changing air quality.

BreezoMeter — Information on Air Quality and Pollen

Editorial and science-communication work for BreezoMeter, a personalised environmental-information service that combines big data, machine learning, monitoring observations and Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service data to provide local air-quality and pollen information worldwide.

DiscovAir

Editorial and science-communication work for DiscovAir, a personalised environmental-information service that used Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service data to help people plan trips and outdoor activities in Greece and Cyprus.

Vortex

Editorial and science-communication work for an ECMWF and Copernicus Climate Change Service case study showing how Vortex combines high-resolution wind modelling with C3S climate data to support wind-farm planning, development and risk assessment.

Lunar Exploration Interactive Documentary

Editorial development and content-promotion work for ESA’s Lunar Exploration Interactive Documentary, an award-winning web experience that makes lunar science, technology and future missions accessible through expert video, articles, visual storytelling and social-media campaigns.

Rosetta Strato Campaign

A digital and educational campaign inspired by ESA's Rosetta mission and the Philae lander, combining design, storytelling and public engagement to communicate the mission and support a charity campaign.

Little Spaceoneers

Getting Vega's Launch Tower Moving

Script development for an ESA documentary explaining the engineering challenge of moving Vega's mobile launch tower at Europe’s Spaceport. The film explores the materials science, structural engineering and operational requirements behind moving the 1,000-tonne service structure away from the rocket before launch.

Eumetsat food security

Keeping Gaia's Memory

Script development for an ESA documentary about diagnosing a failed onboard memory module during pre-flight testing of the Gaia spacecraft, using non-destructive 3D X-ray tomography to determine the cause of the fault.

Making and testing for Mercury

Pan-STARRS Asteroid Search Campaign

Rosetta & Philae animations

Rosetta Shop

Website and order-management support for the Rosetta Shop, an online merchandise initiative connected to ESA’s Rosetta and Philae comet mission. The work combined e-commerce administration, customer-order coordination and day-to-day website management during a period of high public interest in the mission.

Securing Aeolus Against Atomic Oxygen

Script development for an ESA documentary exploring how engineers tested protective spacecraft materials for the Aeolus wind-mapping mission against highly reactive atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit.

Spaceoneers Interviews

UKSEDS charity status

Bloodhound blast example

Desert Living

K’nex

AMBIEnT: Affordable Microsatellite-Based Internet Access and Environmental Monitoring

AMBIEnT was an International Space University team project designing a low-cost microsatellite constellation to bring internet access, tele-education, telemedicine and community environmental monitoring to the unconnected Brazilian Amazon, with the potential to expand to other remote regions.

ESA Hubble

SGAC Find An Asteroid Search Campaign

SEPPCoN: Survey of the Ensemble Physical Properties of Cometary Nuclei

Collaborative observational programme investigating the physical and surface properties of Jupiter-family comet nuclei through thermal-infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope and complementary ground-based visible-light measurements.

P/2010 A2 asteroid collision confirmed by Rosetta/OSIRIS

Collaborative analysis of ESA Rosetta/OSIRIS observations and ground-based imaging that established P/2010 A2's comet-like dust trail as debris from a single asteroid collision in the main belt, rather than sustained cometary activity.

The Prompt Emission from Gamma Ray Bursts

A final-year MPhys directed reading project at the University of Leicester reviewing the leading theories for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and assessing how well they stand up against observational evidence. The work culminated in a literature portfolio, a short lecture course outline, a 40-minute lecture and a set of problems for students.

Models of Time-dependent Accretion Discs with Outflows

Numerical investigation of time-dependent accretion-disc evolution with mass feedback and outflows. The project developed and validated a Fortran model based on Shakura-Sunyaev disc solutions and wind-infall formulations to examine disc dynamics, angular-momentum transport and wind energy deposition.

Calibration of Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) FPA

Comprehensive analysis of calibration data from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Focal Plane Assembly (FPA) using IDL to derive relative spectral response curves.

Galaxy Facebook: X-ray source population analysis of the Galactic Centre

Undergraduate research project analysing XMM-Newton observations of two Galactic Ridge fields to investigate intermediate-luminosity X-ray sources, compare spectral behaviour across energy bands, and identify candidate variable or transient sources.

Numerical N-body simulation in C++

Undergraduate computational-astrophysics project developing a C++ framework for simulating the Newtonian gravitational N-body problem. The project implemented data structures, pairwise force calculations, softened gravitational potentials, leapfrog time integration, diagnostic calculations and initial-condition generation.

Velocity discrimination in hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs

Undergraduate research using Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer spectra to distinguish photospheric and interstellar absorption lines in hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs, helping constrain possible identifications for previously unidentified far-ultraviolet features.

Telescope Coordinator - Astrosoc

PLUME Student CubeSat Micrometeoroid Experiment

A University of Leicester student CubeSat mission designed to investigate the near-Earth dust environment using an active nanometeoroid detector.