@UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory : Science and Technology that's out of this world.
Holmbury St. Mary, Surrey, UK
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Our role in the Hinode mission was to lead the team that provided the EIS telescope. A model of which still looms over us in our meeting room:
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MSSL celebrated International Women’s Day early this year with the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee hosting a quiz on topics related to women in history, science, astronomy and space, a slide show showcasing women at MSSL and, of course, coffee/tea and cake!
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Find out more about Paola’s world-leading work on planet formation here: piped.video/lSCMzCiZgxA?si=HV1L…
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Every year, we celebrate the winners of the Department of Space and Climate Physics Awards. This year's ceremony also highlighted support for the Anti-Bullying Week theme "Power for Good”: empowering people to do something positive to counter the harm and hurt of bullying.
ALT Prof. Andrew Fazakerley opening the UCL Dept Space & Climate Physics Award Ceremony by highlighting the departments support for Anti-Bullying Week and it's theme "Power for Good"
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MSSL’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) committee promoted Anti-Bullying Week (10th -14th November 2025) with the interactive activity “The Gray Zone of Academic Ethics”, as part of Unjournal Club with tea, coffee and cake.
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Our latest @MSSL_Planetary graduate Cristian Radulescu passed his PhD viva today. Thesis on 'Heavy ion distribution and influence on the Saturnian magnetosphere', using Cassini data & simulations. Many thanks to examiners David Burgess (QMUL) & Colin Forsyth. Well done Cristian!
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From India to London: Why UCL was the top choice for my Master’s - Brahma Gopalchetty studied space science at UCL. He shares his journey, from applying and settling in London to building a global network and thriving in UCL’s vibrant community uclnews.org.uk/c/AQjSsgIQj4y…
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Wednesday this week, the MSSL EDI committee gave a great presentation to introduce themselves and present the very encouraging results from the recent lab
EDI survey
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All set up and ready to discuss our space science, engineering and teaching at Farnborough International Space Show!
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Here are some of the amazing women who work at MSSL! Today we celebrated International Women's Day with some tea and cake, and flowers
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Congratulations to the UK Cluster team for their Sir Arthur Clarke award given for their major role in the multi-spacecraft mission (that produced 1000s of papers), leading 3 of the 11 instruments & hosting the Science Operations Centre. Photo: Natasha & Andrew from @MSSLSpaceLab
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Thanks to Seamus from @UCL_Wellbeing for his talk on UCL Colleague Connect for World Mental Health Day, hosted by @MSSLSpaceLab Wellbeing Champions Claire Puddephatt & Chris Brockley-Blatt, who is also the department's Mental Health First Aider.
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@MSSLSpaceLab's Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) committee hosted the first "Unjournal" Club of the new academic year, bringing together students & staff to chat about diverse topics related or unrelated to work over coffee & cake
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Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Friske, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on "chemical evolution modelling of the nuclear stellar disc and its implications". Well done Jenny!
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Great to host students from @LIYSF today, with excellent talks by @DVerscharen, @catherineregan0, Ziri Younsi, @brockley_chris, @colforsyth, Barry Whiteside & Jake Hanlon, hosted by @PlanetAndrewC. Thanks for the great questions!
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A busy morning at our space lab as we welcomed students on the UCL-Japan Youth Challenge 2024 summer programme. It was a pleasure to talk with you all about space science and engineering!
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And that's a wrap on celebrating 150 years of engineering! We didn't manage a team photo during the event but managed to capture some of the team members after we packed up. Thank you so much to everyone who came and spoke to us over the last two days 👏🏼🚀
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Our amazing team of engineers and scientists are here to answer all your space questions! In the engineering cafe today and tomorrow 🚀
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Ready for two days of celebrating 150 years of engineering at UCL. We are showcasing some of the amazing space missions we are involved in. Come and learn more, drive and get your photograph taken by a Mars rover and explore Solar Orbiter in VR! 🛰🚀
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At the end of June we celebrated LGBTQ+ Pride Month with rainbow decorations and rainbow cupcakes, organised by our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) committee. Thank you!
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Great science and mission opportunity discussions this week during a @NASA @spacegovuk visit. Great to meet Jay Bookbinder, Randall Smith, Florence Chaverneff, William Trafford, and also Tobias Marchant from @spacesouthcntrl
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Applications for this year's space science week are OPEN! If you are aged 16-18 and are interested in a career in space science or engineering, apply by 31st May! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form…
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Chris showcasing our amazing work on ESA's Solar Orbiter mission #UCLtechnicalshowcase @brockley_chris @ucl @SolarOrbiter8
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Come and test your driving skills on our Mars terrain and enter the competition to name our mini Mars rover today in the Haldane room! #UCLtechnicalshowcase @ucl
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Team MSSL giving the camera a test run before we welcome visitors! Come and get your photo taken by the Mars camera and printed for you to take home!
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MSSL celebrated International Women's Day on Wednesday with profiles on many of our fantastic female students and staff, and time to chat and eat cake. #IWD2024
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We welcomed @chrislintott to MSSL to speak about the value of science communication and outreach to a research career. Some great discussions were had about how to encourage more departmental activities, and how to use cat pictures in talks! Thanks again Chris for visiting
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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) committee host the "Unjournal" Club once per month to bring together students & staff to chat about diverse topics related or unrelated to work over coffee & cake
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@MSSLSpaceLab's Gaia team celebrating @ESAGaia's 10th launch anniversary yesterday with #GaiaMission's new celebration logo on our cake! The MSSL Gaia team is developing the on-ground software to process the spectra from Gaia's Radial Velocity Spectrometer.
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A reminder that the call for applications for PhD places at MSSL is open, including funded STFC opportunities. Apply to join us! For full details, visit ucl.ac.uk/mssl/study/phd-opp…
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Congratulations and happy retirement to Deputy Director Prof. Mark Cropper on an outstandingly successful 35 years at @MSSLSpaceLab: he was instrumental on @ESA_XMM, @NASASwift, @ESA_Webb, @ESAGaia, @ESA_Euclid, which are all still operational in space. We will miss you!
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Thank you very much to Dr Sheila Kanani (@saturnsheila, just visible on the small screen top right) for coming back (virtually) to MSSL (she did her PhD here!) for our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee’s 2nd talk in the series: "Career Journey Unfiltered”
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Images from @ESA_Euclid have been released today! The engineering and science team at MSSL (who led the VIS camera) are very proud of what has been achieved. The images are extremely beautiful and we are really excited at the prospect of what EUCLID will bring us!
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Congratulations to @astrosnat who recently successfully passed her PhD viva! Osnat's research was titled "From London to Mars and Back to London: People, Objects and the Oral History of UK Space Science"
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Thank you very much to Dr. Anna McLeod (@astroannamc) for kicking off our department's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee’s series of talks for this year: "Career Journey Unfiltered”.
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Great to welcome César Bertucci @cesarbertucci from University of Buenos Aires for an excellent seminar on ‘Induced magnetospheres in the solar system’ today @MSSLSpaceLab
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Congratulations to all our new PhD graduates from @msslastro @mssl_solar @MSSLSpacePlasma and @MSSL_Planetary at their graduation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall today! Also to all our Masters graduates!
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Many congratulations to our latest PhD graduate, Dr Qasim Afghan of @MSSL_Planetary, who carried out research on the understanding of comets' dust tails. Many thanks to @Dr_Lucie & Prof. Alan Fitzsimmons of @QUBelfast for serving as Qasim's examiners.
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Great to welcome attendees from @LIYSF to @MSSLSpaceLab today and to show them some of our scientific & engineering work on different missions and instruments, including @ESASolarOrbiter @ESA_Euclid @ESA_ExoMars and others, also @ExoMarsPanCam
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Euclid had been safely deployed, beginning its trip to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point L2...
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Interested in applying for an @STFC_Matters Ernest Rutherford Fellowship to be held at our lab? Full details of how to be considered for an application are at bit.ly/msslerf23
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Wonderful to be able to hold a public open evening tonight despite the snow. The theme was Mars and the science we plan to do with @ExoMarsPanCam
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@_astroally giving a talk at MSSL in honour of International Women's Day! #InternationalWomensDay
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MSSL is celebrating International Women's Day ♀️
with a lunch time event hosted by the EDI committee and @_astroally
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