Press Releases
| 08/04/2015 | Southwest Research Institute awarded grant from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to further reduce emissions from fire testing
SwRI only organization to receive a 2015 grant in the new technology category |
| 07/27/2015 | Alan Stern invited to testify before U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Space
Stern to address discoveries, further opportunities of New Horizons mission |
| 07/22/2015 | SwRI’s McComas awarded NASA’s Exceptional Public Service Medal
McComas recognized for contributions to NASA Advisory Council |
| 07/15/2015 | Multiple Discoveries from New Horizons Pluto Mission
Pluto, Charon photos capture exciting clear images of mountainous terrain |
| 07/14/2015 | NASA’S three-billion-mile journey to Pluto reaches historic encounter
First space mission to explore Pluto, New Horizons reaches historic closest encounter |
| 07/09/2015 | Southwest Research Institute agreement with Air Force Sustainment Center reduces costs, increases efficiency
Enterprise Partnering Agreement facilitates project flow between Air Force Sustainment Center, SwRI |
| 06/23/2015 | SwRI, UTSA invest in two new joint research projects
Biofuels, vaccine projects receive $125,000 awards |
| 06/02/2015 | SwRI’s Stern named Honorary Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society; selected to receive Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award
New Horizons Principal Investigator honored for his efforts to explore the Pluto system |
| 06/02/2015 | Alice instrument ultraviolet close-up provides a surprising discovery about comet’s atmosphere
SwRI-developed ultraviolet spectrograph is aboard Rosetta, the first spacecraft to study a comet up close |
| 05/27/2015 | Two Southwest Research Institute instruments selected for NASA Europa mission
SwRI-led mass spectrometer and ultraviolet spectrograph will investigate Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon |
| 05/14/2015 | Particle sensor consortium’s new phase aims at California’s emissions deadlines
Particle Sensor Performance and Durability II (PSPD-II) consortium plans future research |
| 05/13/2015 | Ward elected to National Academy of Sciences
NAS membership one of the highest honors awarded to U.S. scientists or engineers |
| 05/12/2015 | NASA funds SwRI instrument to date Moon and Mars rocks
CODEX device will allow unmanned rovers to determine the age of rocks, search for clues to life in the solar system |
| 05/05/2015 | SwRI reveals the first “images” of thunder
Scientists developed a large, sophisticated array of microphones to study the acoustic signature of thunder |
| 04/16/2015 | SwRI-led team studies meteorites from asteroids to date Moon-forming impact
Debris from the Moon-forming impact blasted main belt asteroids long ago, but left behind traces of what happened |