Southwest Research Institute
Planetary Science Directorate 		Southwest Research Institute
1050 Walnut St, Suite 300
Boulder, CO 80302

Phone: 303-546-9670
Fax: 303-546-9687


Studying the origin of the Earth/Moon system


New Horizons will reach Pluto in 2015

SwRI-Boulder's Departments of
Space Studies and Space Operations

Studying the Solar System through Research and Exploration

Southwest Research Institute's Planetary Science Directorate has over 60 employees and is located in the Exeter Building at 11th and Walnut in downtown Boulder, Colorado.

Areas of research and development:

  • Space Studies
    • Planetary Physics
    • Planetary Atmospheres and Surfaces
    • Solar Physics
    • Solar System Dynamics
    • Astronomy
    • Computer Systems
  • Space Operations
    • Space Technologies
    • Mission Operations

For more information, see our brochure.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), based in San Antonio, Texas, is an independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical science research and development organization with over 3000 employees. The Space Science and Engineering Division's goals are excellence in space research and the expansion and deepening of SwRI's space research efforts.

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Web page comments can be addressed to: webman@boulder.swri.edu

New Events:

October 19, 2010
Research Applications with Suborbital Launch Systems (RASLS)
Where: Las Cruces, NM
Co Instructors: Alan Stern, former NASA Associate Administrator for Space and Earth Science and Marshall Kaplan, Space Department of Applied Physics Laboratory at John Hopkins University
Info: http://www.ispcs.com/
Phone: 575-646-6414

October 20-21, 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS)
Where: Las Cruces, NM
Info: http://www.ispcs.com/
Phone: 575-646-6414

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