NASA’s Perseverance rover found light-red 'leopard spots' and detected organic molecules in clay-bearing sediments inside a rock in Jezero Crater in September 2025, providing the strongest evidence to date that microbial life could have existed there 3.5 billion years ago.
NASA reported potential evidence of past primitive life on Mars in the form of dark "leopard spots" seen in a rock by the Perseverance rover whose elemental compositions indicated two minerals that on Earth are created by microbes consuming organic matter.
StarWin’s Leopard-Full Dimensional ESA and LeopardWin-Hybrid ESA terminals operate using Avanti’s HYLAS 4 Ka-band satellite and service.
Leopard Imaging develops camera driver software and provides image tuning for global customers in robotics, edge AI, industrial machine vision, and autonomous machines applications.
The LEOPARD study will be led by SSTL and delivered by a consortium of UK space companies and academic institutions.
The LEOPARD project is in an exploration phase and aims to launch a demonstration payload in 2025.
ClearSpace is part of the SSTL-led consortium called LEOPARD (Low Earth Orbit Pursuit for Active Debris Removal).