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
October 12, 2023: team completes Pre-Ship Review with reviewers from SwRI and Goddard
August 2, 2023: STEAM team continues to work toward environmental testing and delivery of the instrument.
July 7, 2023: presentation of the STEAM mission at the PUNCH Science meeting.
October 13, 2022: Repaired soft xray received, Isotopes move in-house, structures team finishes assembly so testing can move forward
September 30, 2022: STEAM Science and Avionics teams complete preliminary testing of the hard xray spectrometer
August 8-11, 2022: STEAM members presenting at the TESS conference
July 28, 2022: Students touring at Element Materials Technology, where vibe testing will take place
June 23, 2022: STEAM was shipped back from TX and disassembled for electronics testing
April 23, 2022: The STEAM team at the COSGC 2022 research symposium
April 5-8, 2022: Students take the STEAM engineering model to TX to be integrated into the EM spacecaft for testing
April 2, 2022: Epoxying the apertures and cable ties onto the EM panels
October 3, 2021:
Members of the STEAM avionics team working on software
Members of the STEAM mechanical team working on the structure for the avionics prototype
Spring 2021: Spectrometer and Xiphos Q7 setup