Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is an independent, nonprofit applied research and development organization. SwRI operates a large space science and engineering program, and is home to principal investigators for several major NASA missions, including the Juno mission to Jupiter and the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. They develop spaceflight instrumentation, avionics, and electronics for NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Southwest Research Institute will deliver the launch-ready APS-R by 2026.
Southwest Research Institute’s 74,000-square-foot Space System Spacecraft and Payload Processing Facility was created to rapidly respond to customers needing to design, assemble, and test spacecraft, particularly small satellites.
Over the next 16 months, Southwest Research Institute will construct the APS-R host vehicle in its new 74,000-square-foot Space System Spacecraft and Payload Processing Facility.
Southwest Research Institute will build, integrate, and test a small demonstration spacecraft as part of a $25,500,000 Space Mobility and Logistics prototyping project.
Southwest Research Institute will deliver the launch-ready APS-R by 2026.
Southwest Research Institute will construct the APS-R host vehicle over the next 16 months in its new 74,000-square-foot Space System Spacecraft and Payload Processing Facility.
Southwest Research Institute will build, integrate, and test a small demonstration spacecraft as part of a $25,500,000 Space Mobility and Logistics prototyping project.
After the host spacecraft bus is complete, Southwest Research Institute will integrate the Astroscale-supplied payload and perform system-level environmental testing.
Alan Stern acknowledges the contributions of his parents, teachers, astronauts, NASA, the Southwest Research Institute, and the commercial spaceflight industry to his first spaceflight.
Alan Stern is a planetary scientist and aerospace executive at the Southwest Research Institute.
Galactic 05 supported space-based research for the Southwest Research Institute and the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences.
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is sponsoring Alan Stern's flight as a research and space training exercise.
Alan Stern works for the Southwest Research Institute.
Southwest Research Institute won a $55,000,000 contract to supply the QuickSounder weather satellite.
Alan Stern is undertaking his first spaceflight on a training and risk reduction mission funded by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).
The first flight, known as Galactic 05, is funded entirely by Alan Stern's employer, the Southwest Research Institute, under an Internal Research and Development grant.
Southwest Research Institute won a $55,000,000 contract to supply the QuickSounder weather satellite.
Under the contract announced 2023-10-23, San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute will develop the QuickSounder spacecraft, integrate it with NOAA’s Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder engineering development unit, handle transportation and launch, operate the satellite for three years, and perform satellite decommissioning.
The Galactic 05 flight is funded by Southwest Research Institute and will serve as training for a future NASA-funded mission for Alan Stern.
Orbital Composites is working with Axiom Space, Northrop Grumman, and the Southwest Research Institute to test robotic technology to 3D print antennas for satellite-based cellular broadband and kilometer-scale antennas for space-based solar power.