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UK aims to lead an instrument on NASA mission to find habitable worlds

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Artist's concept still of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

The UK Space Agency is taking its first step towards contributing to NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, which will search for life beyond our Solar System. The Agency is launching a call for proposals to explore the feasibility of a UK-led scientific instrument for the mission.

Esteemed UK space sector colleagues recognised in King’s Birthday Honours 2024

The King's Birthday Honours saw UK space sector colleagues recognised for their work's contributions. The UK Space Agency celebrates and congratulates these space pioneers.

Worms in space: Molecular Muscle Experiment 2

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MME 2 logo

On the 3 June 2021 the second Molecular Muscle Experiment, MME2, launched to space from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA), sending thousands of tiny C. elegans worms to live on board the International Space Station for several days.  Their mission: to help mankind understand spaceflight-induced muscle decline. Following on from the first MME, MME2 continues with similar aims:   1) …