Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a $1.2 million definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to provide Phase A Mission Support for the proposed Solaris Polar Mission. The award is in response to NASA's 2019 Medium-Class Explorer Announcement of Opportunity, which sought proposals for Phase A concept studies for up to three Heliophysics Explorers investigations. Under the contract, Southwest Research will lead studies to address NASA's strategic...
This federal contract award, with an ID of NNG04EB09C, was granted by the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency, to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The contract is for a Phase A (Initial Concept) Study for the development of a suite of instruments for the Magnetospheric Solar Terrestrial Probe/Sun Earth Connection major program. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type, has a ceiling...
This is a $3,150,772.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The grant is to modify an existing mass spectrometer electrical engineering development unit to withstand environmental testing. This award is not set aside for any specific type of business. SwRI is a prominent federal contractor, supporting various government agencies through prime and...
Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a $337,356 grant contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center. The contract concerns research tasks to analyze the mass distribution in the inner solar system, specifically seeking to understand the order of magnitude difference in mass between Earth and Mars as well as the low mass and orbital excitation of the asteroid belt. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas through December 2024. No set aside...
This federal contract award, valued at $26,162,610.00, was issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research and development organization. The contract is for the design, analysis, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification, evaluation, launch support, supply, and maintenance of the Instrument Ground Support Equipment (GSE), as well as support for mission operations at the National Oceanic...
Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a $523,586 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct research relating to interplanetary shocks driven by coronal mass ejections or those associated with corotating interaction regions. The research aims to further understanding of the energetic ion populations present in the heliosphere. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas over a four-year period through February 2024. No set-aside designation or subcontracting...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization, for the study of the formation of compact planetary systems. The award, valued at $394,114.73, will support research to understand the dynamics of growing protoplanets and how their number, masses, and orbits depend on model parameters, in order to better comprehend planetary system formation and the role of migration in their...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The objective of the contract is to study the dynamics of velocity shear in the Earth's magnetosphere, and the associated plasma transport and heating processes related to vorticity and turbulence. The contract is a $210,685.80 grant for research, with a...
This is a $8,492,737.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the Solar Orbiter SPICE Phases E/F Effort. The contract is not set aside and runs through April 30, 2028. SwRI, a nonprofit research and development organization, will provide scientific and engineering services to support NASA's solar science mission. The University of Colorado is a major...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $50,065 grant contract to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to support research relating to "Solar Wind Propagation Throughout the Inner Planets" under the agency's Shared Services Center. As the prime contractor, SwRI will perform the requested research services over a two-year period ending in July 2025 from its division located in San Antonio, Texas. No subcontractors or set-aside designations were indicated....