STEAM Updates

October 19, 2023: former PM, Mary, hand delivered the instrument to SwRI in San Antonio & completed required functional testing. Steam passes the delivery inspection

STEAM delivers instrument to San Antonio


October 12, 2023: team completes Pre-Ship Review with reviewers from SwRI and Goddard

STEAM completes preship review


August 2, 2023: STEAM team continues to work toward environmental testing and delivery of the instrument.

STEAM team works towards meeting requirements for riding on PUNCH mission


July 7, 2023: presentation of the STEAM mission at the PUNCH Science meeting.

STEAM presents at punch


October 13, 2022: Repaired soft xray received, Isotopes move in-house, structures team finishes assembly so testing can move forward

Steam structures team finishes assembly


September 30, 2022: STEAM Science and Avionics teams complete preliminary testing of the hard xray spectrometer

STEAM completes first engineering prelim test


August 8-11, 2022: STEAM members presenting at the TESS conference

STEAM at TESS


July 28, 2022: Students touring at Element Materials Technology, where vibe testing will take place

Students touring Element Materials Technology


June 23, 2022: STEAM was shipped back from TX and disassembled for electronics testing

Students disassembling the STEAM EM


April 23, 2022: The STEAM team at the COSGC 2022 research symposium

Symposium poster

Symposium


April 5-8, 2022: Students take the STEAM engineering model to TX to be integrated into the EM spacecaft for testing

Students in Texas

Full EM build


April 2, 2022: Epoxying the apertures and cable ties onto the EM panels

Cable ties on EM panel
Apertures on EM panel


October 3, 2021:

Members of the STEAM avionics team working on software

STEAM avionics team working on software

Members of the STEAM mechanical team working on the structure for the avionics prototype

STEAM mechanical team working on avionics prototype


Spring 2021: Spectrometer and Xiphos Q7 setup

STEAM EM spectrometers