NASA’s Lucy mission captured its first views of four Jupiter Trojan asteroids, with observations helping…
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The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is a prominent nonprofit applied research and development organization headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1947, SwRI provides a broad range of scientific and engineering services to both government and commercial clients globally. The institute focuses on a diverse set of fields including automotive engineering, fuels and lubricants, environmental sciences, material engineering, and space science. SwRI is known for its significant contributions to space missions, automotive innovation, and environmental technologies, maintaining a reputation for extending the boundaries of science and technology while ensuring practical applications of its research findings.
The LMS Instrument Will Examine the Electrical Conductivity of the Interior of the Moon The…
Naming the First Lucy Mission Asteroid The first asteroid to be visited by NASA’s Lucy…
The researchers replicated the conditions of an interstellar cloud and an asteroid to gain a…
Researchers Used the James Webb Space Telescope To Examine Primordial Interstellar Ices An international team…
Lucy’s New Asteroid Encounter NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile…
The researchers observed long, web-like structures that eject particles from the Sun into space. A…
Tracking NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft for Gravity Assist Mission engineers will continually track NASA’s Lucy spacecraft…
Lucy will perform a gravity assist flyby of Earth on October 16 to gain energy…
The subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon is most likely rich in phosphorus, a key component…
NASA’s Lucy mission discovered a satellite around Polymele, increasing its asteroid targets to nine. Even…
Research combined spacecraft data with new lab experiments and models of Pluto’s largest moon. Southwest…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft observed the total lunar eclipse on May 15-16, 2022, from a unique…
Research indicates that salty water exists beneath Mars’ ice cap, supporting potential habitats for life…
Discovery Could Point to a New Class of “Stealth” Ocean Worlds A study by the…
Full-scale turbomachinery for a supercritical carbon dioxide power system has been developed by Southwest Research…
Using New Horizons, researchers determined the galactic Lyman-alpha background is 20 times dimmer beyond Pluto…
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