{"id":2411,"date":"2026-06-19T19:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:48:58","slug":"nasa-relativity-space-eric-schmidt-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":"NASA selects Eric Schmidt\u2019s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-announces-public-private-partnership-to-advance-mars-science\/\">launch NASA\u2019s Aeolus payload<\/a> to Mars in 2028, as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/17\/nasa-picks-eric-schmidts-rocket-company-for-mars-mission-setting-up-a-race-with-spacex\/\">reported earlier by <em>TechCrunch<\/em><\/a>. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide the \u201cspacecraft, rocket, and cruise operations\u201d to fly Aeolus to Mars, where the payload will \u201cprovide the first integrated, daily, global view of Martian winds, temperatures, dust, and clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The Aeolus payload will have four instruments on board for studying the Martian atmosphere, which NASA says will \u201cdirectly inform entry, descent, and landing systems and support safer, more predictable mission planning for astronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/627365\/google-eric-schmidt-relativity-space-ceo\">became Relativity Space\u2019s CEO<\/a> in 2025, a couple of years after it launched the \u201cworld\u2019s first 3D-printed rocket,\u201d Terran 1, which failed shortly after launch. Relativity Space\u2019s larger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.relativityspace.com\/terran-r\">Terran R<\/a> rocket isn\u2019t scheduled to have its first launch until later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/952988\/nasa-relativity-space-eric-schmidt-mars\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA\u2019s Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide the \u201cspacecraft, rocket, and cruise operations\u201d to fly Aeolus to Mars, where the payload will \u201cprovide the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[347,46,169,170],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-nasa","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NASA selects Eric Schmidt\u2019s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NASA announced a partnership with Relativity Space, run by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus mission to Mars in 2028.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=2411\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NASA selects Eric Schmidt\u2019s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars - 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