SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Space and Planetary Sciences

	Moon. Image Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech.
	To address the challenges of aerospace applications, SwRI staff develop techniques to characterize material properties of advanced composites.

The growing space and planetary sciences program in the Geosciences and Engineering Division of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) offers expertise in the following areas:

• Planetary geosciences

• High-temperature oxidation and corrosion mitigation for exploration vehicles

• Protective coatings for exploration vehicles

• Infrastructure engineering for planetary exploration

• Geotechnical engineering for in situ resource utilization

• Micromechanical analyses for structural reliability and life prediction

• High-temperature models of alloy behavior

• Computational fluid dynamics

National Environmental Policy Act

SwRI also has more than 20 years of experience with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, and offers complete support to organizations with environmental impact assessment responsibilities under NEPA. Multidisciplinary teams within the Geosciences and Engineering Division are formed to prepare or evaluate environmental assessments and environmental impact statements.

For more information about our space and planetary science capabilities, or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Dr. David Ferrill at dferrill@swri.org or (210) 522-6082, or Dr. Wesley Patrick at wpatrick@swri.org or (210) 522-5158.
 

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Southwest Research Institute^® (SwRI^®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 12 technical divisions.

March 25, 2010