16 October 2020
SWRI tests "Clockwork Starfish" for sampling asteroids
Researchers at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are working on a novel approach ... these could return samples from various locations on numerous asteroids,” said SwRI Principal Scientist Dr. Alex Parker, who led development of the Clockwork ...
27 July 2016
Where did Ceres' craters go?
...between Mars and Jupiter, so accordingly, it is expected to be heavily cratered. However, research conducted by a team of scientists led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have found that instead of the 10 to 15 craters around 400 kilometres (250...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... alien sky, unlike what we see from Earth,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. “And that has allowed us to do something that had never been accomplished before — to see...
14 February 2020
Arrokoth helps resolve longstanding controversy on Solar System evolution
... Arrokoth’s smooth, lightly cratered surface, John Spencer, a project scientist on New Horizons based at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado and his colleagues suggest in their report that the relative lack of impacts...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... his PhD at the University of Münster, Germany, prior to working on planetary interiors and comets at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), in San Antonio, Texas. After working at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin, he began working...
