Maxine joins Thomas Keating with her position being Business Manager and Company Secretary for the Space, Instruments, Toolmaking and Electro-forming Companies within the Churchwood Group. Maxine s back ground  experience has been as Senior Project Manager, Business and Accounts Manager and Head of Finance for multi-national blue chip companies.

In January 2015 we delivered a novel Quasi-Optical bench to SAC, Indian Space Research Organization, in Ahmadabad in Gujarat, India. Designed for both accurate complex material measurements and the characterisation of Dichroic Plates (DCP's), our circuit allow both normal incidence, but - unusually - also specular and scattering  reflection measurements. SAC are developing a range of DCP's for use in future meteorological satellite radiometers. Thanks to Dr S B Chakrabarty and Ila Agnihotri  (The latter pictured on the left of Richard Wylde [The bald chap] in this image) and their colleagues for their hard work and enthusiasm during the design and installation of the project.  ...

Thomas Keating has made further investment with the acquisition of an Agie AC Progress VP2 Wire EDM. Being sited in our temperature controlled area and having Ø0.05mm wire technology, we can satisfy the ever increasing demands of the injection mould, defence, scientific and space industries. AGIE AC Progress VP2 wire EDM at Thomas Keating Ltd.

Nick Stone and Thierry have both passed NVQ Engineering Level 2 and will be moving onto to study for NVQ Engineering Level 3.

A decade after making an in-vessel, Tritium-containing, antenna for ECE and reflectometer measurements on the JET Tokomak, TK has been making  new front optics, which will allow a different area of the plasma to be probed. Designed on our PRO/E Creo Gaussian-beam enabled CAD system, TK's 3D printer was used to check the general configuration of the part. Manufacture - including some tricky spark erosion -  is now complete and we expect installation will occur before the end of 2014 The new antenna front-end and the 3D printed sample.    

Well over a decade ago, QMC Instruments made a small free standing wire polarizing grid which JPL's MIRO instrument on the Rosetta mission uses to separate incoming radiation into two channels: Two radiometers have been looking at 188 GHz (1.6 mm) and 562 GHz (0.5 mm). The lower band provides continuum measurements, giving subsurface temperature measurements, the higher frequency channel cover vibration lines which include H2O, CO, CH3OH, and NH3 and the isotopes H217O and H218O   Worth reading the ESA MIRO Blog here   Image thanks to ESA MIRO has been measuring the rate of Water Loss from 67P/C-G.  At its peak we are told here that the comet is losing 5 Li...