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• Lunar dust study links space weathering to changes in Moon ultraviolet brightness SpaceDaily · 5 Mar 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2026 SAN ANTONIO - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists working with researchers at UT San Antonio have analyzed Apollo lunar soil samples to determine how space weathering alters t...
• AI-driven solar model aims to extend space weather warnings SpaceDaily · 24 Feb 2026 New York (SDX) Feb 23, 2026 New research by Southwest Research Institute and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research has produced a new tool that could eventually extend space weather f...
• Birth conditions fixed water contrast on Jupiters moons SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor Europa is thought to harbor a vast global ocean of liquid wa...
• CoDICE instrument returns first-light particle data for IMAP mission SpaceDaily · 26 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 December 16, 2025 - Southwest Research Institute's Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft...
• Europa Clipper spectrograph tracks interstellar comet 3I ATLAS SpaceDaily · 22 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has obtained a key dataset on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which in July b...
• PUNCH mission delivers sweeping new view of solar activity SpaceDaily · 22 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 After less than a year in orbit, NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, built and led by Southwest Research Institute, is returning wide-field images tha...
• Lunar dust study links space weathering to changes in Moon ultraviolet brightness SpaceDaily · 11 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 SAN ANTONIO - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists working with researchers at UT San Antonio have analyzed Apollo lunar soil samples to determine how space weathering alters t...
• SwRI opens NOUR lab to track chemical pathways from nebulae to planetary systems SpaceDaily · 3 Dec 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has established the Nebular Origins of the Universe Research (NOUR) Laboratory to investigate how the chemistry of interstellar material leads to the...
• SwRI to build magnetometers for NOAA weather satellites SpaceNews · 9 Dec 2024 SAN FRANCISCO — The Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio won a $26.1 million contract to build a space weather instrument for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. […]
• NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Next Generation Space Weather Program NASA · 9 Dec 2024 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build the Next-Generation Space Weather Magnetometer for the Lagrange 1 Series pr...
• Southwest Research Institute to supply NOAA coronagraphs SpaceNews · 14 Nov 2024 SAN FRANCISCO – The San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) won a $60 million contract to build three coronagraphs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Under the contract, awarded Nov.
• NASA Awards Contract for NOAA’s Space Weather Program NASA · 14 Nov 2024 NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio to build three coronagraphs for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of NOAA’s Space...
• SwRI wins QuickSounder weather satellite contract SpaceNews · 23 Oct 2023 The Southwest Research Institute won a $55 million contract to supply the QuickSounder weather satellite.
• Southwest Research Institute wins NOAA contract to build space weather instrument SpaceNews · 2 Jul 2020