Press Releases
| 02/10/2017 | Mason awarded ASQ Shewhart Medal
Institute analyst recognized for outstanding work in quality control for automotive and petroleum industries |
| 02/02/2013 | New "retention model" explains enigmatic ribbon at edge of solar system
Future studies of this region could open a window into the physics of the nearby galactic medium |
| 01/16/2013 | Suborbital space research and education conference scheduled for June 2013
Sessions focused on the research, education and public outreach capabilities of reusable suborbital vehicles |
| 01/10/2013 | SwRI®-developed Rhodium Docking Capability software enhances virtual screening capabilities for pharmaceutical, biochemical development
Rhodium software expands pharmaceutical research and protein engineering capabilities |
| 01/04/2013 | DARPA selects the SwRI K-band space crosslink radio for flight development as part of System F6 Program
System F6 program evaluating “fractionated” spacecraft architecture |
| 12/05/2012 | Foundation grant will fund SwRI study of Val Verde County water supply
Southwest Research Institute will perform a technical study of the water supply for Val Verde County through a grant from the Coypu Foundation |
| 11/26/2012 | SwRI team reports Cassini finds a video gamer paradise at Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spots another “PAC‐MAN®”‐shaped feature, this time on Saturn’s moon Tethys |
| 11/15/2012 | NASA Rover providing new weather and radiation data about Mars
RAD monitors high-energy radiation considered to be a health risk to astronauts and a factor in whether microbes could survive on Mars' surface |
| 11/13/2012 | SwRI will participate in a U.S. Army program to demonstrate alternative sources for an emergency electrical power grid
$7 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract will demonstrate integration of electric vehicles, generators and solar arrays to supply emergency power. |
| 10/26/2012 | SwRI acquires light-gas gun facility for hypervelocity research
Southwest Research Institute acquires one of the largest impact testing and research facilities in the world. |
| 10/22/2012 | SwRI to build miniature solar observatory for manned suborbital flight
SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform is designed to reduce costs for new solar research instruments |
| 10/17/2012 | New model reconciles the Moon Earth-like composition with the giant impact theory of formation
The identical oxygen isotope compositions on the Earth and Moon explained |
| 10/16/2012 | Pluto moons and possible rings may be hazards: New Horizons and the gauntlet it may encounter in 2015
Debris orbiting in the Pluto system may create hazards for the New Horizons spacecraft |
| 10/16/2012 | SwRI sets low-cost ROS-I consortium membership entry fees
SwRI funds internal research to accelerate ROS-Industrial development and benefit the technical needs of the consortium |
| 10/04/2012 | NRC renews contract for SwRI to continue operating CNWRA
CNWRA will continue research and technical support of storage, transportation, reprocessing and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste |