This is a $330,921.99 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to advance the understanding of energy transfer and coupling processes between plasma and magnetic fields in the solar wind near Earth. The grant supports research objectives including determining the polytropic indices of the solar wind plasma, identifying relationships between magnetic field strength and plasma parameters, and distinguishing these...
This is a $519,229 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to research the contribution of coronal jets to the solar wind using deep machine learning and computer vision techniques. The contract is a research grant with a period of performance through July 2026. SwRI is a prominent nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas, that specializes in advanced scientific and engineering services for various government...
This is a $50,065.00 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 a research project focused on "Solar Wind Propagation Throughout the Inner Planets." SwRI has extensive experience conducting scientific research and providing technical services to various government agencies, including NASA, the Department of Defense, and the Department...
This is a $379,768.00 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 for a project titled "UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGIN OF 3HE-RICH SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES USING IN-SITU AND REMOTE IMAGING OBSERVATIONS". The award is not set aside and will run through March 8, 2026. SwRI has a strong track record of securing federal contracts and grants,...
This is a $473,700 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization in San Antonio, Texas. The grant is for a project titled "ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT OF SUPRATHERMAL AND ENERGETIC PARTICLES USING DATA FROM THE.WIND/EPACT/STEP INSTRUMENT." The grant has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2028. SwRI is an experienced federal contractor, holding multiple...
This is a $861,858 grant awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a prominent nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The grant's overarching objectives are to identify the pathways by which coronal mass ejection (CME)-driven shocks gain access to suprathermal ions from solar flares. This research aligns with NASA's Science Mission Directorate and SwRI's extensive experience in planetary science, solar physics,...
This is a $106,467 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for a research project titled "CROSS-SCALE ASYMMETRIC MAGNETIC RECONNECTION OBSERVATIONS AT THE DAYSIDE MAGNETOPAUSE". The project is focused on studying magnetic reconnection processes at the boundary between the Earth's magnetic field and the solar wind. SwRI, a non-profit research and development organization, will conduct this scientific research...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AG98G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The $168,526.02 grant supports an investigation into the size and shape of coronal loops, which is critical to understanding the coronal magnetic field. The research aims to determine whether coronal loops expand but maintain a uniform apparent...
This federal contract award, valued at $387,955.39, 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 goal of this grant is to enable the integration of 3D kinematic dynamo models and solar wind models to facilitate long-term forecasting of background solar wind conditions and cosmic ray flux. The principal investigator is Dr....
This is a $523,307 federal grant awarded by the Shared Services Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The grant is for research using remote sensing observations to characterize the nature of emission in the middle corona and derive the conditions, processes, and magnetic connectivity that give rise to transient and steady outflows....
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to conduct research related to understanding the origins and dynamics of jets, plumes, and the fast solar wind. The $133,174.23 grant aims to develop a deeper physical understanding of these solar phenomena through a coordinated approach combining observations, theory, and modeling. The research program addresses key questions in heliophysics, including the role of magnetic reconnection in driving coronal-hole jets and plumes, as well as their potential contribution to the structure, mass, energy, and magnetic flux of the solar wind and heliosphere. This work is intended to support upcoming NASA missions like Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe Plus by providing a clear, tested theory to interpret their observations. SwRI, an independent nonprofit research institute, has a strong track record of securing both federal contracts and grants across various government agencies, including NASA, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy.