This is a $407,487 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a prominent non-profit research and development organization. The grant is for SwRI to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. Key focus areas include scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was awarded a $310,614 research grant by a civilian federal agency effective January 1, 2022, with completion targeted for December 31, 2026. The grant supports laboratory-based impact experiments designed to advance understanding of regolith properties and surface processes on small asteroids, specifically Bennu and Ryugu, which were the subjects of NASA's OSIRIS-REX and Hayabusa2 missions. SwRI will conduct impact experiments using CI and coarse regolith...
The U.S. government awarded a $548,714 research grant to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) under contract 21-EW21-0033 for scientific investigation into planetesimal formation, evolution, and impacts. The award, issued on January 1, 2023, with a completion date of December 31, 2026, represents fundamental research support through a civilian federal agency. SwRI, a prominent nonprofit research and development organization headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, will conduct this work at its San...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was awarded a $984,906 grant by the Shared Services Center for research on suprathermal and energetic particle studies utilizing the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft. The contract, executed on April 18, 2023, is a non-set-aside research grant with an ultimate completion date of April 17, 2028, and will be performed at SwRI's headquarters in San Antonio, Texas. This grant supports fundamental scientific research in heliophysics, contributing to...
This $2,974,010.00 federal grant award to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research organization, seeks to adapt the Laser Absorption Spectrometer for Volatiles and Evolved Gas (LASVEGAS) instrument for use on the lunar surface. The grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has an ultimate completion date of March 8, 2026. SwRI, the prime contractor, has a strong track record of securing prime and subcontract awards from various government...
This is a $371,658 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization. The grant is for SwRI to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The work will focus on scientific research of, on, and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond, as well as advancing discovery in emerging fields...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was awarded an $749,684 research grant on August 1, 2024, for a project titled "Solar Energetic Particle Dropouts Inside 1 AU" under contract 23-SOGI23_2-0018. This scientific research initiative, which will be performed at SwRI's San Antonio, Texas facility and is scheduled for completion by July 31, 2027, addresses heliophysics phenomena related to solar energetic particles in the inner solar system. The funding originates from a civilian federal...
This is a $1,808.98 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization. The award is for a "Multidisciplinary Assessment of Recurring Slope Lineae and Slope Streak Generation by Dry Grain Flow on Mars" and has a period of performance through July 11, 2024. SwRI has a history of supporting NASA and other federal agencies with a range of research and technical services, including space...
This is a $359,480.00 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization, to archive data from the Mars Express Electron Spectrometer (ELS) instrument. The purpose is to allow enhanced science through preserving and making accessible the background data from this instrument on the Mars Express spacecraft. The grant has a performance period ending on March 11, 2027. SwRI is the prime awardee, and there is no...
This federal contract award to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization, will support a study on the physics of impact cratering on the Moon and Mercury. The $404,505.49 grant, awarded by NASA, will fund an extensive mapping campaign using lunar and Mercury spacecraft imagery to investigate the formation and distribution of secondary craters and ejecta from large primary impact events. This research aims to improve the understanding of crater excavation processes...
This is a multiple-year, incrementally funded cooperative agreement awarded by NASA's Ames Research Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the "Project ESPRESSO: Exploration Science Pathfinder Research for Enhancing Solar System Observations" proposal. The $5,498,597.29 award supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research focused on enabling and enhancing the exploration of near-Earth asteroids, the Moon, and the moons of Mars. Key focus areas include improving operational safety, target selection and in-situ resource utilization, and target characterization and analysis capabilities. The research program includes developing instrumented nano-impactors, characterizing regolith properties, predicting landslide hazards, and advancing in-situ compositional analysis techniques. SwRI has partnered with industry to develop a vacuum chamber system for microgravity experiments to support this and other SSERVI (Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute) research. This cooperative agreement, which has no set-aside designation, aligns with multiple NASA strategic knowledge gaps related to small body exploration.