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NASA selects Eric Schmidt's rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars.

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Relativity hired Eric Schmidt as CEO on Jul 1st '25.

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NASA selects Eric Schmidt's rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars. Friday, 19 June 2026 Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA's Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide the "spacecraft, rocket, and cruise operations" to fly Aeolus to Mars, where the payload will "provide the first integrated, daily, global view of Martian winds, temperatures, dust, and clouds." The Aeolus payload will have four instruments on board for studying the Martian atmosphere, which NASA says will "directly inform entry, descent, and landing systems and support safer, more predictable mission planning for astronauts." Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, became Relativity Space's CEO in 2025, a couple of years after it launched the "world's first 3D-printed rocket," Terran 1, which failed shortly after launch. Relativity Space's larger Terran R rocket isn't scheduled to have its first launch until later this year. (Originally posted by Stevie Bonifield) When you subscribe to the blog, Mgicomputers will send you an e-mail when there are new updates on the site so you wouldn't miss them.

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News

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
Eric SchmidtCEO
Takes effect
Jul 1, 2025
Location
California, United States

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  • Eric SchmidtCEO · Named in the story

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Detected
Jun 19, 2026
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