Endeavour update newsletter Summer 2025
01 Jul 2025
The ISIS Endeavour programme comprises four new instruments and five significant upgrades, to be delivered over the next ten years.
Super shiny electrodes for Super MuSR
The electrodes for the Super MuSR spin rotators have been delivered and are currently being tested by the STFC Technology department. They will then be sent to the Vacuum Processing Group within ASTeC in Daresbury for ultrasonic cleaning before returning to ISIS to be included in the pre-build of the Super MuSR instrument ahead of its installation in 2027.
To find out more about spin rotators, and why they need to be so shiny, by reading the full article on our website.
HRPD decant complete and R69 demolition underway
The HRPD instrument has been dismantled and the planned demolition of the building has begun to make way for the HRPD-X upgrade. The photograph below shows Nigel Rhodes from the ISIS Detector group, with one of HRPD’s old backscattering detector modules, with the cover removed to expose the intricate stacks of scintillator plastic inside.
People of Endeavour
Continuing our series introducing the staff behind Endeavour, we speak to Lily Galvin, a mechanical design and project engineer, working as part of the detector design group on the detectors for the Endeavour programme instruments.
The HRPD team have created a newsletter that features more detailed progress updates and images, sent out via the ISIS user community news. You can read the latest issue online. The images below show the progress of the demolition of R69.
