BackForwardInstrument:  SXM 

Instrument details
Acronym SXM
Full name Solar X-ray monitor
Purpose Space weather: monitoring solar X-ray fluxes reaching the platform
Short description Fluxmeter to measure X-rays in the range approximately 1-10 keV
Background Consolidated technology
Scanning Technique Sun pointing from GEO
Resolution N/A (full disk)
Coverage / Cycle Full solar disk at 1 ms intervals
Mass Power Data Rate

 

Providing Agency CMA
Instrument Maturity Flown on operational programme
Utilization Period: 2012 to 2025
Last update: 2021-12-15
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 1
  • X-ray spectrograph on GEO orbit
  • X-ray spectrometer at GEO
  • 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]
  • Subcomponent 3
  • UV spectral imagery (e.g. GEO, HEO, MEO, LEO)
  • X-ray spectrometer [from GEO, HEO, MEO, LEO]
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Solar X-ray flux
Evaluation of Measurements

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Note: * Primary mission objective.
VariableRelevance for measuring this variableOperational limitationsExplanation
Solar X-ray flux*3 - highNo specific limitation.Few channels, wide dynamic range