Wow! What a start to the (academic) year. Last night, Geraint Morgan (Taff) led us through the fascinating journey the Rosetta space probe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)) went through to land on the rubber duck shaped asteroid. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28351234).

Taff worked on the mass spectrometer used to determine the make-up of the comet gasses.

The spin-off of this space research is used in everything from whisky sniffing, submarine safety, and fireproof underpants.

It was great to meet members of the Staffs Uni Engineering society (https://www.staffsunion.com/organisation/TheIES/) and we plan to work closely with this group.

We have an exciting line-up of events coming up, however, Taff has set the bar very high!