British astronaut Tim Peake has formally opened the new £100 million Space Park Leicester.
The European Space Agency astronaut and former International Space Station crew member was guest of honour at a ceremony at the space research, innovation and teaching cluster.
The space park, which it is hoped will boost the regional economy by £750 million a year and create 2,500 jobs, has already welcomed a string of high profile tech companies, including subsidiaries of Rolls-Royce and AST SpaceMobile as well as air quality specialists EarthSense and the government-backed Satellite Applications Catapult.
