NASA chooses Eric Schmidt’s rocket company to go to Mars in 2028

Relativity Space, a rocket company led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, was selected launch NASA’s Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as was already said by Results TechCrunch. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide “spacecraft, rockets, and spacecraft” to fly Aeolus to Mars, where it will “provide the first integrated, daily, global display of Martian winds, temperatures, dust, and clouds.”

The Aeolus payload will carry four Martian measurement instruments, which NASA says will “directly inform entry, descent, and descent and support safe, predictable routes for astronauts.”

Schmidt, who served as Google’s CEO from 2001 to 2011, He became the CEO of Relativity Space in 2025, a few years after it launched “the world’s first 3D-printed rocket,” Terran 1, which failed shortly after launch. Relativity Space is vast Terran R The rocket is not scheduled for its first launch until later this year.