SwRI-Planetary Science Directorate Project News

January 19, 2006 NASA's Pluto Mission Launched Toward New Horizons
September 25, 2005 New Horizons is at Kennedy Space Center!
March 10, 2005 Upcoming NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter UV Instrument Selected to Fly
January 11, 2005 Department Leads 2009 NASA Mars Lander Radiation Instrument
November 29, 2004 Department Researchers Explore Saturn with Cassini
September 28, 2004 SwRI provides Mars weather information for the next Mars Scout Mission
August 4, 2004 MESSENGER Launched, SwRI Involved
June 7, 2004 Rosetta Alice UV Spectrometer Sees First Light
April 5, 2004 Gearing Up for MESSENGER's Launch
January 23, 2004 SwRI Suborbital Science Payload Gets the Goods on Mercury, Searches for Vulcanoids
September 5, 2003 Solar Group to build Next Generation Imaging Spectrograph for NASA Sounding Rocket Program
May 27, 2003 Department to Co-host Summer 2003 AAS Meeting
Mar 30, 2003 Department Submits NASA Astrobiology Institute Proposal
Jan 27, 2003 New Horizons Science Team Meeting Feb 6-7 2003
November 11, 2002 Mars Activities Gear Up
September 9, 2002 Department Hosts Pluto-Kuiper Belt Instrument Design Reviews
July 22, 2002 Happy Birthday EKONews!
April 8, 2002 High altitude search for Vulcanoids
November 30, 2001 SwRI awarded program to begin development of the first spacecraft to Pluto
November 16, 2001 SwRI Scientists and Engineers Submit MIDEX Proposal for EUV Solar Mission
September 27, 2001Scientists and Engineers Complete NASA-Funded Phase A Study Of Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
July 18, 2001SwRI ALICE miniaturized ultraviolet spectrometer delivered for Rosetta comet mission launch
June 13, 2001SwRI Proposal for Pluto Mission Selected by NASA
April 25, 2001Airborne Studies of Accretion in Micro-gravity Initiated
November 29, 2000Astrobiology Efforts Spring to Life
July 11, 2000SwRI-led Team Completes Proposal to Fly Miniaturized Instruments Through the Solar Corona
March 21, 2000SwRI-led Team Completes Proposal to Fly a Minitiaturized Camera-spectrometer Package to Pluto
February 9, 2000 NEAR Entering Orbit Around Asteroid Eros
July 12, 1999SwRI-developed ultraviolet imaging system back in space for July shuttle mission


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