NASA Picks Eric Schmidt's Rocket Company For Mars Mission

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By BeauHDJun 19, 2026, 7:00 am108 pts
NASA has selected Relativity Space to build and launch Aeolus, a 2028 Mars orbiter that would provide daily global measurements of dust, winds, and atmospheric temperatures to support future robotic and human missions. TechCrunch reports: The structure of the contract is akin to the deals that NASA made with…

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