space science and exploration technology<\/a>, such as detector hardware development, pipeline processing, and optics and spectroscopy.<\/p>\nThe projects also provide opportunities to work collaboratively with international counterparts who are making progress in similar areas.<\/p>\n
About the space projects<\/h3>\n The projects that have received funding include:<\/p>\n
Chandrayaan-2 and Shukrayaan (Royal Holloway and ISRO, India) – \u00a3306,000<\/h4>\n The project is responsible for processing multi-band radar and developing analysis software to detect lunar south pole sub-surface ice.<\/p>\n
Star-X (University of Leicester and NASA, US) – \u00a3650,000<\/h4>\n The project will study the formation of the Universe using the time-domain method and multi-messenger astrophysics by developing high-level science data.<\/p>\n
FIR missions (University of Sussex and NASA, US) – \u00a31.1m<\/h4>\n Provision of superconducting detectors, detector systems, optics, filters, and data pipelines. This technology could be used for a probe mission to investigate the formation of planetary systems and the evolution of galaxies.<\/p>\n
HABIT (University of Aberdeen and JAXA, Japan) – \u00a3320,000<\/h4>\n The funding will develop an instrument to monitor air and ground temperature, wind, humidity, and hydration state of salts, for a Mars rover studying water cycle, chemistry, and habitability.<\/p>\n
I-MIM (The Open University and CSA, Canada) – \u00a32m<\/h4>\n The space project will focus on high-performance detectors for the Mars multispectral and stereo imager for the International Mars Ice Mapper mission. The technology will map accessible water ice deposits on the Martian surface.<\/p>\n
Lunar Spectroscopy (University of Leicester and iSpace, Japan) – \u00a31.5m<\/h4>\n The project will lead the development of the Raman analytical spectroscopy instrument based on the Raman laser spectrometer. The instrument will be used for commercial small lunar landers and rovers that will explore the lunar surface for space resource utilisation.<\/p>\n
CosmoCube (University of Cambridge and NASA, US) – \u00a31.5m<\/h4>\n The team will develop a mission and space platform for a cube-sat that will deploy a precision radiometer to measure spectral distortions in the Universe\u2019s cosmic microwave background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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