Simple, flexible tenancy options starting from £160 + VAT p/p p/m*

Advantages include:

• Open-plan collaborative workspaces
• Networking opportunities and events
• Access to break-out areas
• On site café and kitchen facilities

*Min 12 month license.

Secure, access-controlled and furnished with desks and chairs

Advantages include:

• Dedicated internet (up to 1Gbps) and telephony service*
• Optional access to onsite parking (subject to availability)
• On site café and kitchen facilities

*Subject to direct contract with external partner

Put our extensive facilities to work and get the best out of Space Park Leicester Services include:

• Research project teams
• Multifunctional R&D laboratory suites
• Concurrent design facility
• Precision manufacturing facility
• Bookable meeting rooms and conferencing facilities

Laboratory used for:

• Non-cleanroom, standard optical system breadboarding and alignment.
• Prototyping remote sensor optical systems (commission only).
• Adjusting and modifying remote sensing instruments of various sizes.
• Testing atmospheric sensors and air treatment technology (commission only).

Laboratory capabilities:

• Optical tables for optical measurements proof of concept testing, including spectroscopy.

Room used for:

• Spectroscopic measurements for satellite remote sensing of the Earth’s atmosphere.

Laboratory used for:

• General sensor development, thermal calibrations of radiometers with 3D printing capabilities.
• Early prototyping of instrumentation and hardware.

Laboratory used for:

• Joint research with industry.
• Optical calibrations of spectrometers (commission only).
• Characterisation of lasers and detectors in UV-VIS-NIR-IR (commission only).
• Thermal calibration of radiometers (commission only).
• Testing of sensors with small volumes of exotic gases (commission only).

Laboratory capabilities:

• Dark room with moderate thermal stability for radiometric calibration, and specialist gas handling.

Laboratory used for:

• Developing outdoor prototypes with close proximity of instrument workshops and indoor data feeds.
• Setting-up, testing, troubleshooting and deploying new outdoor in-situ and remote sensing equipment.
• Remote, in situ sensor gas calibration, and real-time data collation.

Laboratory capabilities:

• Power and gas line connectivity between the indoor lab and outdoor observatory.
• Contains remote and in-situ atmospheric instruments for setup, maintenance and calibration.

Laboratory used for:

• Product research and development.
• Ad-hoc prototyping and visualisation (linking with the Concurrent Design Facility).
• Computer and hardware ‘hackathon’ activities.

Laboratory used for:

• Concurrent design of hardware and software for the space and space-enabled sectors.
• Interactive working on-site and remotely.
• End-to-end design and development (linking with the Flexi-Lab).

Room used for:

• Large conferences with catering for up to 100 guests, or two smaller, separated or partially separated spaces.

Room capabilities:

• Interactive touch-screen video-wall for real-time data visualisation and exploration.
• Easy access to the main atrium, café and outdoor terrace.

Laboratory used for:

• Testing scientific and industrial Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) projects.

Room capabillities:

• Facility provides a darkened area for testing.

Laboratory used for:

• Light sensitive optical calibration of instruments, sub-systems and equipment.

Laboratory used for:

• Researcher, academic and industry product development.
• Space 4.0 techniques, including commercial payloads and CubeSats for deep space exploration.

Laboratories used for:

• Testing.
• Basic science and projects with space agencies, industry and other organisations.
• Collaborations with university academics and researchers.

Space Lab 2 (Astrobiology Containment Lab) capabilities:

• ESA Double Walled Isolator (for supporting the Mars Sample Return mission – NASA-ESA mission to return samples collected by the Mars Perseverance rover.

Laboratory used for:

• (ISO 6) Ultra-clean and static-free assembly of instruments, spacecraft and components.

Workshop used for:

• Manufacture of components for research, lab facilities and projects.

Workshop used for:

• Manufacture of electronics for research work, lab facilities and projects.

Laboratory used for:

• Conducting hazardous chemical processing on site.
• Open liquid based radioactive sources used in medical imaging.
• Powder sintering and chemical dissolution.

Laboratory used for:

• Work on drone based aircraft.
• Earth observation drones ‘garage’.
• Developing and testing instruments to be flown on the drones.

Laboratory capability:

• Has an outside door and drone launch area.

Shop used for:

• Small mechanical projects on equipment and components.
• Housing tools and machines for small item manufacture and alteration.

Shop used for:

• Measurement of metrological components.

Laboratory capability:

• Provides a thermal stable environment < ±2C for measurement of components.
• Computer Measurement Machine to allow measurement of dimensions to an accuracy of a few microns (10-6m).