The University of Sussex is aiming for the stars once again as Sussex scientists secure a major grant to lead a UK research effort for a NASA space mission.
With £1.1 million funding from the UK Space Agency, the Sussex led research team will be working on developments for a potential probe mission to investigate the formation of planetary systems and the evolution of galaxies.
The funding is part of a £7.4 million investment in UK space research from the UK Space Agency to enable UK scientists and engineers to play a role in major global space science missions in partnership with other space agencies around the world. The Sussex researchers will be leading a coalition of research teams from the University of Cardiff, Imperial College London and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, to develop optics, filters and data pipelines for NASA.
The UK institutions that were selected by the UK Space Agency to receive this funding needed to demonstrate scientific excellence in critical areas of space science and exploration technology, and opportunities to work closely with international counterparts.
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