BackForwardInstrument:  STEAM 

Instrument details
Acronym STEAM
Full name Student Thermal Activity Energetic Module
Purpose STEAM will advance understanding of solar flares and help identify why the solar corona is far hotter than the solar surface by measuring enhancement of key elements and temperature in solar flares and solar active regions.
Short description STEAM has 2 X-ray spectrometers - 1 soft X-ray (SXR) and 1 hard X-ray (HXR). The SXR detector will measure X-rays between 1 and 7 keV, and the HXR detector will measure X-rays greater than 7 keV. Instrument details not available so assumptions made in instrument properties.
Background STEAM will be a subsidiary instrument on the PUNCH satellite which also hosts the Narrow Field Imager.
Scanning Technique Sun pointing from a drifting LEO
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Providing Agency NASA
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: 2025 to 2028
Last update: 2022-02-07
Detailed characteristics
Satellites this instrument is flying on

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Instrument classification
  • Solar and space environment monitors
  • Solar activity monitor
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 2
  • Solar magnetograph, solar EUV/X-ray imagery and EUV/X-ray irradiance, both on the Earth-Sun line and off the Earth-Sun line
  • Solar X-ray spectrometer [from L1, GEO, LEO]
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Solar X-ray flux spectrum
Evaluation of Measurements

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Note: * Primary mission objective.