Endeavour update newsletter Winter 2025
19 Dec 2025
Endeavour will deliver transformative impact in three societal challenge areas: materials for the future, clean growth and life sciences.
This newsletter features highlights from the instrument upgrades that are already underway. Super MuSR and HRPD-X are currently planned to be ready for the user programme in the first half of 2028. Wish-II, Mushroom and Sandals-2 are now in the detailed design phase, with Osiris+ and Tosca+ likely to follow during 2026/27.
The video below was taken at the ground-breaking ceremony for the building that will house the new HRPD-X instrument.
Continuing our series introducing the staff behind Endeavour, we speak to Lisa Malliolio, who has been testing detectors for Super MuSR as part of an Erasmus+ traineeship.
During her three-month traineeship, Lisa has been working with Dan Pooley, on a fully assembled stave for Super MuSR, including testing the output of the scintillator tiles and the communication between the stave and the computer. “It has been very busy!” she says. “But I been able to carry out experiments both in the labs and on the muon beamlines, and it has been interesting to get this unique experience that’s not available at a university.”
Super MuSR
The project has transitioned fully from the design phase to the pre-build phase, with the pre-build area at ISIS starting to get busy with different beamline components.
The image on the right shows the detectors, which are now being manufactured. The speed of production is increasing with experience!
The spin rotator and quadrupole magnets are also being manufactured, with completion expected in the middle of 2026.
HRPD-X
The first concrete pour for the new building took place in December, as shown in the video. 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.
Wish-II and Mushroom
ISIS staff are working with the technology team at STFC’s Daresbury laboratory to develop the primary parts of these instruments.
For Wish-II, there is also some work going on to develop the detectors, with some units designed and in manufacture.
