This is a federal grant award to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The grant, valued at $99,495.55, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to expand SwRI's capabilities for tidal stress modeling on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. The work aims to incorporate layered structures, physical libration, and non-synchronous rotation into the tidal stress models, and to assess tectonic...
This is a $494,108 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization in San Antonio, Texas. The grant is for a project titled "Exploring the Composition of Jupiter's Haze and Cloud Features Observed by JunoCam", under NASA's Science Mission Directorate. SwRI has a strong track record of performing scientific research for NASA, with a focus on planetary science, solar...
This federal contract award, valued at $575,037.88, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The award is for a research grant to study Europa's thermal-orbital evolution and its effects on the moon's surface geology, fracture formation, and potential liquid water transport. The research aims to better characterize Europa's interior structure, tidal...
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...
This is a $1,911,117.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to conduct research on "Tracking 3D Ice Shell Evolution and Material Exchange at Europa." SwRI is a non-profit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The award has an ultimate completion date of December 10, 2026 and does not have a set-aside designation. As a prominent federal contractor, SwRI holds several Indefinite...
This is a $398,395.49 grant for research 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 supports a study on the thermal degradation of complex organic materials found in carbonaceous chondrites and comets, with the goal of understanding the evolution of volatile compounds in the interiors of icy bodies in the outer solar system. The research will involve...
This is a $303,037 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization. The purpose of the grant is to fund research to "UNDERSTAND THE HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON DYNAMICS AT JUPITER USING JUNO MICROWAVE RADIOMETER (MWR) DATA." This work is being conducted under NASA's Science Mission Directorate. SwRI has a long history of supporting NASA and other federal agencies through...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, received a $1.76M grant award from a civilian federal agency for research titled "Follow the Energy: Tracing from Europa Surface Chemistry Back to Subsurface Redox Conditions." The research project, funded through the agency's Shared Services Center, is scheduled for completion by December 10, 2026. This grant represents SwRI's continued participation in planetary...
The U.S. government awarded a $550,876 research grant to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) on June 1, 2024, for a quantitative assessment on spectral darkening of icy regions across Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. The grant, issued by a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center under contract number 23-NFDAP23_2-0001, carries an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2027, and involves no set-aside designation. SwRI will perform the work at its San Antonio, Texas headquarters, leveraging...
This is a $551,235 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The grant is for research related to studying the subsurface liquid water oceans believed to exist on several moons in the outer solar system, which are considered prime targets for assessing planetary habitability. The grant does not have a set-aside designation, indicating it was a full...
This is a $332,321.30 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization, to conduct observations and research related to the dynamic processes on the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. The objectives include follow-up observations of Io's molecular atmosphere, continued monitoring of Io's volcanic activity, and improved mapping of condensed oxygen on Europa's surface. This work is intended to improve understanding of these solar system bodies and supports NASA's Solar System Observations program. The award is not set aside and is part of SwRI's broader portfolio of federal contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements across various government agencies.