SwRI’s Dr. Alan Stern conducts space research during suborbital spaceflight aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity
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- SwRI in the news: Potentially life-friendly moon at Jupiter makes squeaky sounds forbes.com/sites/elizabet…
- If you haven’t heard, NASA TV and NASA Social will be covering Ultima Thule flyby events! Also, be sure to scroll to the end of the story to hear Chris Pratt (AKA Guardians of the Galaxy’s Peter Quill) share his support of the New Horizons mission.
- As you’ve heard, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly past Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule. But what is the Kuiper Belt? Find out more about this vast region of space! pluto.jhuapl.edu//multimedia-db…
- SwRI scientists created the Clockwork Starfish, which has magnetic sides that allow it to attach to an asteroid and then turn itself inside out to gather samples. Here it is being tested in low gravity yesterday aboard @BlueOrigin's New Shepard launch vehicle.
00:00 - SwRI’s Singer wins Urey Prize for planetary research swri.org/press-release/…
- Breaking! NASA has selected SwRI to lead PUNCH, a mission that will use a constellation of four microsatellites to study how the Sun’s corona connects with the interplanetary medium. SwRI’s Craig DeForest is principal investigator. Congrats, Team PUNCH! swri.org/press-release/…
- SwRI planetary scientist to fly with NASA-funded research aboard commercial space flight swri.org/press-release/…
- In a new blog, SwRI’s @AlanStern writes about an incredible new milestone for the New Horizons mission. The spacecraft will soon reach a distance from Earth of 50 AU — that’s 50 times the distance of the Sun to the Earth! Read more. pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI…
- The New Horizons spacecraft reached an incredible milestone over the weekend when it passed the 50 AU mark — 50 times the distance of the Sun from the Earth! It’s only the fifth spacecraft to ever reach that distance. Read more from PI @AlanStern. pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Ne…
- Is Pluto a planet? SwRI’s Alan Stern and Curtin University professor Ron Ekers will debate that question at the 2,409th Meeting of The Society April 29 in Washington, D.C. What do you think? Should Pluto regain planetary status or remain a dwarf planet?
- What do New Horizons scientists expect to learn as the spacecraft flies by Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt? Find out here! pluto.jhuapl.edu//multimedia-db…
- At 29, Alex Parker is the youngest of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute principal investigators. Congrats, Alex!
