BepiColumbo, carrying an instrument designed and built by University of Leicester scientists, has completed its final flyby of Mercury. Its orbiters will start circling the planet next year! le.ac.uk/news/2025/janu…

Its been great to be involved in this mission, and more still to come as we continue processing the data.

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Slightly worrying that I’ve been here for nearly half of it. 😊

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Great company. Wonderful to work with them on the SIRIUS mission study.

This is a wonderful result. I am so pleased for the team and feel privileged to have been able to support this development. I am looking forward very much to working with the centre. A great effort by everyone involved!

To retain our ability to operate in space we need to ensure we focus on the sustainability of what we do.

This is a very welcome project. We need to stimulate our economy and this a key means to supporting businesses.

We recently celebrated the 50 years since the formation of European Space Agency . What an enormous success it has been and great benefit to Europeans. I was asked to celebrate this in an article for the The Conversation - theconversation.com/esa-at-50-how-…. Please read and share your thoughts.

Looking forward to being there supporting our Space Park Leicester stand and delivering a plenary on the Habitable Worlds Observatory observatory.

A great privilege to give the final plenary talk at #uksc2025 on the exciting search for life with Habitable Worlds Observatory.

Great to be at the opening session of the Habitable Worlds Observatory conference. Inspirational talks all round.

A career highlight. Speaking in the same session as my daughter Jo (pictured) in the same session of the Habitable Worlds Observatory conference.

Great timing for my article, published as we were attending the Habitable Worlds Observatory conference.

We had a great meeting on Habitable Worlds Observatory in Washington last week. It's exciting to be building a wide and supportive community in the UK. Thanks also UK Space Agency for getting behind this mission and leading the discussions on a possible UK role with NASA

The UK Space Agency and NASA are working closer than ever, opening new possibilities beyond Earth. 🌓 At the Habitable Worlds Observatory Conference, our Head of Space Science Dr Caroline Harper showcased the UK's ambition to lead an instrument on NASA's next-gen telescope. 🔭

This is great news. Congratulations Liz. It is always nice to see a local MP given an important job in government but particularly so when it is in area related to our core business.

Great news. Congratulations and good luck.

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