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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.
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.
Southwest Research Institute will contribute software to enable Orbital Composites’ in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing technology to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, EO Vista, the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, and Southwest Research Institute won $800,000 contracts to perform definition-phase studies of the coronagraph for the NOAA Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 mission.
For the Space Development Agency SBIR Phase 1 contract, Cognitive Space is partnering with the Southwest Research Institute.
General Atomics won the TSIS-2 contract by offering its OTB bus at a cost 40% below that of Southwest Research Institute.
Virgin Orbit signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Southwest Research Institute, an independent non-profit research and development organization, to establish a new collaboration.
NASA’s Flight Opportunities suborbital research program made its first award for a human-tended payload in October 2020 by selecting a proposal from Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute to test a camera and biomedical sensors on a future SpaceShipTwo flight.
NASA selected a proposed experiment by the Southwest Research Institute as part of its Flight Opportunities program on 2020-10-14.
The Southwest Research Institute experiment will test the operation of a camera designed to work at low light levels for potential astronomical imaging and will include a separate suite of biomedical sensors.
Southwest Research Institute won a $15,600,000 contract to design and build the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor for NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Lagrange 1 satellite.
Under the contract, Southwest Research Institute will design, analyze, develop, fabricate, integrate, test, calibrate, and evaluate the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor.
NOAA awarded a $12,900,000 contract in April to the Southwest Research Institute to design and build the Space Weather Follow-On magnetometer.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $12,900,000 contract to the Southwest Research Institute to design and build the Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange-1 Magnetometer.
Under the contract, the Southwest Research Institute will support launch and on-orbit checkout of the instrument, supply and maintain the instrument ground support equipment, and support the mission operations center through mission hand-over to NOAA.
The Southwest Research Institute purchased flights on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and also purchased flights on the Lynx suborbital spaceplane developed by XCOR Aerospace.
NASA launched eight 30-kilogram Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) satellites in 2016 that were built by the Southwest Research Institute and the University of Michigan.