Southwest Research Institute
The Southwest Research Institute, (SwRI) was founded in 1947 in San Antonio, Texas and is the oldest independent non-profit R&D organization in the USA. SwRI partners with private enterprise and public entities to perform research and development in a broad spectrum of engineering and physical science areas. SwRI has 11 technical divisions that offer multidisciplinary, problem solving services. SwRI serves clients from more than 20 locations.
Address
Communications Department, Southwest Research Institute, P.O. Drawer 28510, San Antonio, Texas 78228-0510
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News Office
dsdeffenbaugh [at] swri [dot] org
Phone
(210) 522-2046
Fax
(210) 522-3547.
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"Southwest Research Institute" in the news:
New space show highlights IBEX spacecraft's mission of discovery
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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As part of its education and public outreach efforts, the story of NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission has been chronicled in a space show premiering this month at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. The show ...
IBEX collecting science data, building first all-sky map of the edge of the solar system
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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Following two months of commissioning, during which the spacecraft and sensors were tuned for optimum mission performance, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft began gathering data to build the first maps ...
New instrument has potential to detect water deep underground on Mars (w/ Video)
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep ...
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP shedding light on permanently shadowed regions of the moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. ...
NASA launches probe to study edge of solar system (Update)
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Oct 19, 2008 |
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic ...
SPICE mission to explore the center of the solar system
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 22, 2009 |
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An imaging coronal spectrograph called SPICE (Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment), designed by scientists and engineers at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder has been selected by ESA and NASA ...
IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.
Primitive asteroids in the main asteroid belt may have formed far from the sun (w/ Video)
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Jul 15, 2009 |
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Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system, according to an international team of astronomers ...
Rosetta and New Horizons watch Jupiter in joint campaign
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Mar 30, 2007 |
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ESA’s Rosetta and NASA’s New Horizons are working together in their joint campaign to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta’s Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates that the data ...
Innovative avionics enable search for habitable planets
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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The search for habitable planets continues with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft, the latest in NASA's series of low cost, highly focused Discovery missions. Kepler, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ...
NASA approves space mission to unlock the secrets of magnetic reconnection
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Dec 03, 2007 |
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NASA has stepped up to the challenge of an NRC study by defining a four-spacecraft constellation that will probe known magnetic reconnection sites with the highest-resolution charged particle, electric field and magnetic ...
Study of first high-resolution images of Pallas confirms asteroid is actually a protoplanet
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Britney E. Schmidt, a UCLA doctoral student in the department of Earth and space sciences, wasn't sure what she'd glean from images of the asteroid Pallas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
Look ma, no mercury in fillings!
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Tooth enamel is hardest material in the human body because it's made almost entirely of minerals. As tough as it may be, however, enamel can be broken down by bacteria, forming cavities and eventually destroying the tooth. ...
Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...
Imager aboard IBEX space mission to capture evidence of far-distant particle collisions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2008 |
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A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy ...
