27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
... class of rare Pluto-like objects, so finding a companion is important," said Alex Parker of Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, who led the image analysis for the observations. "The discovery of this moon has given us an opportunity...
18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
..., but a team at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado devised a way to date the lunar craters by studying the... an asteroid expert at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado and a co-author of the paper. The team’s result ...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... doesn’t under the current plan. SNC’s Space Systems division is building the habitat prototype at its Louisville, Colorado, factory where the company is also building the Dream Chaser Cargo System, an autonomous lifting-body spaceplane...
14 February 2020
Arrokoth helps resolve longstanding controversy on Solar System evolution
... a unique story to tell,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Those results are detailed in three separate studies by three different teams, all published in Science, and when...
11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
...year, as a means to deploy the rovers. Based in Colorado, Lunar Outpost says it will utilise its extensive experience gained ... surface for the US space agency. Nasa is paying the Colorado-based company $1 (£0.74), a sum proposed by Lunar Outpost, ...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
... backers of the company. Based initially in San Francisco, Orbit Fab recently announced that it is moving its headquarters to Colorado, supported by nearly $5 million in economic incentives from the...
