SAN ANTONIO — July 11, 2023 —Southwest Research Institute has delivered a plasma spectrometer for integration into a lunar lander as part of NASA’s Lunar Vertex investigation, scheduled to commence ...
The Moon is getting another instrument to explore its vast history as the Magnetic Anomaly Plasma Spectrometer (MAPS) instrument developed by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been delivered ...
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, possesses a weak intrinsic magnetic field and has only a very tenuous atmosphere (exosphere). These three conditions result in a direct coupling between the ...
An innovative ESA-backed instrument to sample the space weather environment in-situ is set to join the International Space Station. Norway’s multi-Needle Langmuir Probe, m-NLP, due to be fitted to the ...