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The Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission, a significant endeavor led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), has recently crossed a pivotal milestone, advancing its journe
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Dr. Alan Stern, a leading planetary scientist and the Associate Vice President of Southwest Research Institute s (SwRI) Space Science Division, will fly aboard the VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic s comme
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SAN ANTONIO May 24, 2021 On May 20, 2021, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing NASA s Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of its spacecraft and payload experiments. Southwest Research Institute is leading PUNCH, a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission that will integrate understanding of the Sun s corona, the outer atmosphere visible during total solar eclipses, with the solar wind that fills the solar system. Passing PDR gets us one step closer to launch, verifying the design options, interfaces and verification methods for the mission, said PUNCH Principal Investigator Dr. Craig DeForest of SwRI s Space Science and Engineering Division. In this challenging year, I m so proud of this team for acing this important design cycle review, from refining the spacecraft design to actually building an engineering model of the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) instrument and other technology we need to image the solar
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SwRI Announces Record 2020 Consolidated Revenues of Nearly $696 Million
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Southwest Research Institute announced consolidated revenues of nearly $696 million in fiscal year 2020, up more than 3% from 2019 and the highest ever recorded by the Institute. Internal research and development spending increased 24%, topping $10 million for the first time.
The Institute’s Advisory Trustees, Board of Directors and special guests met virtually for the 73rd Annual Meeting, highlighted by presentations about several innovative research and development programs underway at SwRI in 2020.