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Whilst the dominant scientific concern at the beginning of the new decade has been the very much rooted-on-Earth pandemic, excitement and renewed commitment to space exploration may see the 2020s eventually remembered for a surge of reignited interest in the Final Frontier. A new global space race is under way between the world’s major powers to be the first to unearth new secrets about our immediate celestial neighbourhood, the solar system.

The EU-funded PLEIADES project demonstrated integrated eco-design workflows with engineering design processes that allow aircraft designers to inject environmental performance at the early phases of product development, saving significant time and costs down the road.

There is still much we don’t know about the Moon and the conditions astronauts settling down on its surface will need to live in. The LUVMI-X project has been preparing the best possible rover for these future missions, with a launch expected in 2025 if everything goes as planned.