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Stantec Government Services has been selected by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwest to lead multidiscipline architect-engineer and consulting services under a five-year, $30,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity single-award task order contract.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesOrg RelationshipSep 29, 2022Stantec selected by US Navy for critical IDIQ contract

General Atomics won the TSIS-2 contract by offering its OTB bus at a cost 40% below that of Southwest Research Institute.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesOrg RelationshipAug 6, 2022Italian satellite may fly NASA Earth science payload

A Long March 2C launched nine positioning and connectivity test satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 12:00 a.m.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesOrg RelationshipJun 2, 2022Long March 2C launches 9 navigation test satellites for Chinese automaker

Southwest Airlines Co. selected Viasat’s next-generation Ka-band satellite in-flight connectivity system to be factory-installed on all new aircraft deliveries starting in the first quarter of 2023.

Mentioned as: Southwest Airlines Co.Technical ProductMay 10, 2022Southwest Airlines Chooses Viasat’s High-Speed In-Flight Connectivity for New Aircraft Deliveries

A small asteroid approximately 2 m in size designated 2022 EB5 impacted Earth’s atmosphere southwest of Jan Mayen on 2022-03-11.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralApr 10, 2022U.S. Space Force Releases Decades Of Bolide Data To NASA For Planetary Defense Studies

LauncherOne reaches the 45-degree inclination for the Above the Clouds mission by shifting the drop point off the Southern California coast to the west-southwest of the one used on previous launches.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralJan 11, 2022Virgin Orbit to demonstrate air-launch flexibility on upcoming mission

A classified satellite was launched from southwest China on 2021-09-27.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralSep 27, 2021Classified satellite declared lost after China launches twice in 2 hours

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.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralAug 30, 2021Virgin Orbit + Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Sign A Collaboration MOU

The 27 km Ghat section on the Karnataka-Goa border is part of the Western Ghats, which receives substantial rainfall during the southwest monsoon from June through September every year.

Mentioned as: southwestNarrative GeneralJul 30, 2021Indian Railways use drones to map at-risk areas in state of Karnataka

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.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralJun 4, 2021Virgin Galactic signs contract for suborbital research mission

Rebecca Davidson is the Southwest Region Director and Youth Program Director for the National Forest Foundation.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralJan 6, 2021Boeing Company invests $100,000 in National Forest Foundation’s youth program for career development through drone technology

A Long March-2C carrier rocket launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on 2020-10-26 at 11:19 p.m. Beijing Time.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralOct 27, 2020China Launches Three Yaogan-30 Satellites

NASA selected a proposed experiment by the Southwest Research Institute as part of its Flight Opportunities program on 2020-10-14.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralOct 14, 2020NASA selects first human-tended suborbital research payload

The maiden Miura 1 mission will be launched from the El Arenosillo test range near Huelva in southwest Spain.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative PlanAug 31, 2020PLD Space completes critical testing of its Teprel-B rocket engine

Saltzman is returning to the Pentagon after managing air operations in Central and Southwest Asia.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralJul 7, 2020Space Force proposes headquarters staff led by generals and civilians

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.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesOrg RelationshipJul 2, 2020Southwest Research Institute wins NOAA contract to build space weather instrument

China launched a Beidou-3 navigation satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 9:43 p.m. Eastern.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesNarrative GeneralJun 23, 2020China launches final satellite to complete Beidou system, booster falls downrange

Earlier in 2020, SpaceX sought a revised lease for the Southwest Marine site that would use an adaptive reuse approach leveraging existing buildings and temporary structures such as large tents.

Mentioned as: southwestTechnical ProductJun 9, 2020SpaceX drops plans for Port of Los Angeles facility again

NOAA awarded a $12,900,000 contract in April to the Southwest Research Institute to design and build the Space Weather Follow-On magnetometer.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesOrg RelationshipMay 1, 2020UC Berkeley Lab to build NOAA space weather instrument

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.

Mentioned as: Southwest AirlinesOrg RelationshipApr 15, 2020Southwest Research Institute wins NOAA space weather contract
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