- NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit  The Register
- NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science  NASA (.gov)
- NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX  TechCrunch
- Relativity Space to privately develop Mars orbiter mission  SpaceNews
- In June 2026, Relativity Space — the rocket company Eric Schmidt took over in 2025, whose one rocket has never reached orbit — said it would privately build and fly a Mars orbiter in 2028, carrying NASA’s Aeolus atmospheric instruments and doubling as a c  Space Daily
​NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit  The RegisterNASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science  NASA (.gov)NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX  TechCrunchRelativity Space to privately develop Mars orbiter mission  SpaceNewsIn June 2026, Relativity Space — the rocket company Eric Schmidt took over in 2025, whose one rocket has never reached orbit — said it would privately build and fly a Mars orbiter in 2028, carrying NASA’s Aeolus atmospheric instruments and doubling as a c  Space Daily by Soban News (international And National News)