This course has the largest campus-based space research activity in Europe, and the space science and technology options that you will study are based on this research. This includes a strong involvement in the Bepi-Columbo mission to Mercury and detector design and development for satellites like the joint US-UK-Italian ‘Swift’, a remarkable instrument designed to study the most powerful explosions in the Universe.This course has the largest campus-based space research activity in Europe, and the space science and technology options that you will study are based on this research. This includes a strong involvement in the Bepi-Columbo mission to Mercury and detector design and development for satellites like the joint US-UK-Italian ‘Swift’, a remarkable instrument designed to study the most powerful explosions in the Universe.