Press Releases
| 02/23/2010 | Cassini finds plethora of plumes, hotspots at Enceladus
Spacecraft systems record best 3-D images ever obtained of "tiger stripe" |
| 02/18/2010 | SwRI announces pioneering program to fly next-generation suborbital experiments with crew
New initiative first of its kind in the nation |
| 01/27/2010 | SwRI's Light receives ASNT Research Award for Sustained Excellence
Dr. Glenn Light recognized by American Society for Nondestructive Testing |
| 01/25/2010 | SwRI models traffic behavior associated with mass evacuation of urban areas
Smartphone apps may offer solution |
| 01/24/2010 | SwRI researchers offer explanation for the differences between Ganymede and Callisto
Models show large impact events played a significant role in the moons' formation |
| 01/15/2010 | Korbell named chairman of SwRI Board of Directors
Pfeiffer will serve as vice chairman |
| 01/14/2010 | NASA's Rosetta "Alice" spectrometer reveals Earth's ultraviolet fingerprint in Earth flyby
Spacecraft on course to meet cometary target in 2014 |
| 01/04/2010 | Researchers to begin first NASTAR suborbital spaceflight training course
Course will qualify students for the physiological rigors of suborbital human spaceflight |
| 12/11/2009 | Southwest Research Institute's integrated avionics control NASA's WISE spacecraft
WISE will use infrared light to scan the sky using sensitivity hundreds of times greater than ever before |
| 12/10/2009 | Cassini closes in on the centuries-old mystery of Saturn's moon Iapetus
Analyses suggest migrating ice, dust may explain unusual appearance |
| 11/02/2009 | San Antonio Water System joins Energy Research Alliance of San Antonio
Alliance promotes conventional, alternative and renewable energy solutions |
| 10/23/2009 | Conference outlines suborbital research opportunities
Atmospheric science, astrophysics, solar physics and other space science topics to be discussed |
| 10/15/2009 | First IBEX maps reveal fascinating interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system
Global view of the interstellar boundary builds on point measurements provided by Voyager spacecraft |
| 10/08/2009 | WorldView-2 satellite features key processing electronics from SwRI
CTIF builds on SwRI's record of more than 50 mission systems with no on-orbit failures |
| 09/22/2009 | Radar map of buried Mars layers matches climate cycles
MRO's Shallow Radar instrument studying north-polar layered deposits |