Press Releases

01/11/2008 SwRI earns Lockheed Martin STAR Supplier Award

SwRI earns Lockheed Martin STAR Supplier Award SwRI's quality, performance recognized for A-10 Prime Contract 
11/30/2007 NASA approves space mission to unlock the secrets of magnetic reconnection

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 field measurements yet performed in space.
10/31/2007 SwRI holds fifth clean diesel consortium kick-off meeting

Cooperative research program launches new four-year effort
10/23/2007 New site available at SwRI for evaluating highway safety devices and traffic barriers

Crash test pad offers secure, secluded evaluation area
10/23/2007 New theory proposes Jovian magnetosphere circulates magnetic field remarkably different from that of Earth

Structure and magnetospheric processes at Jupiter may be significantly different
10/17/2007 SwRI's Army fuels and lubricants program celebrates 50 years of service

Institute continues to provide technical support to Army
10/15/2007 CNWRA to continue operations at SwRI

NRC renews contract for $123 million, five years
10/15/2007 SwRI's Dinwiddie receives Rossiter W. Raymond Award, Alfred Noble Prize

SwRI hydrogeologist recognized for paper
10/10/2007 Surprises from the night side of Jupiter

New Horizons takes rare look at Jupiter's night side
10/09/2007 New Horizons' SWAP instrument reveals complex structure, diverse plasma populations in Jupiter's magnetotail

New data collected during Jupiter flyby
10/09/2007 New Horizons' Alice UV spectrograph observes Io's atmosphere change in response to eclipse events

Results to appear in Oct. 12 issue of Science
09/13/2007 SwRI signs international autonomous vehicle collaborative agreement

Collaboration with INRIA of France will advance autonomous vehicle
09/06/2007 New research reveals a large asteroid breakup to be the likely source of the impactor that caused a mass extinction event on Earth 65 million years ago

Breakup event in the main asteroid belt likely caused dinosaur extinction
08/30/2007 Scientists Find Elusive Waves in Sun's Corona; Discovery Can Help Unlock Secrets of Corona's Heat, Solar Storms

Discovery may provide insight into how Sun affects Earth, solar system
08/14/2007 NASA robot uses SwRI-developed tools to sample life deep underwater

DEPTHX collects samples from world's deepest sinkhole