TK was recenty visited by David Eldridge, the editor of Plastics And Rubber Weekly - the
UK pastics and mould trade magazine -  who kindly wrote this article on our Mould making
business.

Recent work for the CTP division of Carclo plc and new instructions from RPC plc are keeping
the toolmaking side of our business busy

March 2010

Thomas Keating has received an order from the US Deparment of Energy's Pacific National Laboratory
in Richland, WA to build a copy of Graham Smith's HiPER 94 GHz pulse Electron Spin Resonance
specrometer optics.  Due for delivery in the late summer of 2010 the 400 K USD order, funded
from the 2009 Obama simulus package, will provide PNL with a step change in their ESR facilities
when its comes on stream in early 2011.

The scheme of the very low deadtime QO bridge.

ESA has released first light pictures of Planck's - the third generation of
Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy space instruments - first
operational scan.  

The false colour image below shows a comparison of a small area of
space whose minute temperature variation away from 2.7K are
displayed at 70 GHz (from the Low Frequency Instrument, for which
we did nothing) and the High Frequency Instrument (HFI). The match is
very good, indicating that both instruments are performing well.

TK was, with others, involved in the design of the HFI antenna array
and manufactured the horns - shown in the image below.  

THE TK made forest of HFI horns - held by Richard Wylde. More
details are availabe on the Planck site

There is also a note on what Planck hopes to achieve by George Efstathiou of
the Kavli Institute for Cosmology in Cambridge

Images thanks to ESA.

Dr Graham Bell,  who recently completed his PhD thesis under
Prof Richard Hills at the MRAO in Cambridge, has joined Thomas Keating
as a Project Scientist. His PhD centred on the design of the
HARP-B optics - a 16  channel radiometer operating from 325 to 375 Ghz 
on the JCMT in Hawaii.

In additional to his observational interests in Thz Astronomy, he is
also a keen Glider Pilot.

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