Press Releases
| 12/02/2010 | SwRI's Burch awarded AGU John Adam Fleming Medal
Dr. James L. Burch recognized for research, leadership in space sciences |
| 12/01/2010 | SwRI's McComas named Fellow of the American Physical Society
Dr. David J. McComas recognized for his pioneering discoveries, significant contributions to space research |
| 11/30/2010 | Cassini finds warm cracks on Enceladus
New maps show hottest regions of so-called "tiger stripes" |
| 11/30/2010 | Korbell re-elected chairman of SwRI Board of Directors
Pfeiffer will continue to serve as vice chairman |
| 11/26/2010 | Cassini Finds Ethereal Atmosphere at Rhea
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere infused with oxygen and carbon dioxide around Saturn’s icy moon Rhea |
| 10/21/2010 | LRO's LAMP ultraviolet spectrograph observes LCROSS blast, detects surprising gases in impact plume
Findings show mercury and other volatiles could pose challenges to future human exploration |
| 10/21/2010 | SwRI's Janssens named Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
Dr. Marc Janssens recognized for his leadership, research and innovation in fire protection engineering |
| 10/08/2010 | Suborbital research conference registration opens
NSRC will alert and educate about the many new opportunities offered by a new wave of human suborbital vehicles |
| 10/07/2010 | Ground-based images of asteroid Lutetia complement spacecraft flyby
Adaptive optics are shown to be amazingly accurate |
| 10/06/2010 | SwRI to launch Preignition Prevention Program (P3) Consortium
Program will study fuel and lubricant interactions to develop methods for suppressing low-speed preignition in engines |
| 09/29/2010 | Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system "unties"
Latest IBEX map shows the region at the edge of the solar system changes over relatively short time periods |
| 09/29/2010 | SwRI researchers develop novel compression devices for CO2 sequestration
SwRI engineers have developed a high-pressure turbo pump and an enhanced compressor design for sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions |
| 09/24/2010 | SwRI-developed test rig successfully tests two-stage compressor under wet gas condition
SwRI designs and builds rig for testing compressor performance under wet gas conditions |
| 09/02/2010 | SwRI energetic particle instruments selected for Solar Probe Plus mission
Mission marks first journey into Sun's outer atmosphere |
| 09/01/2010 | SwRI to receive $1.2 million to develop advanced anode materials for lithium-ion batteries
Award is part of Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies Program |