Claims: NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit
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- title: NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit Source
- url: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/06/18/nasa-payload-to-ride-commercial-mars-orbiter-from-rocket-biz-yet-to-reach-orbit/5258341 Source
- summary: It might not yet have reached Earth orbit, but Relativity Space has announced plans for a mission to Mars carrying a NASA payload. The mission, dubbed Aeolus and scheduled for 2028, will launch a Mars orbiter carrying four NASA-built instruments. Relativity Space will supply the rocket, spacecraft, and cruise operations, while NASA will deal with the payload. The four instruments comprise a Doppler wind and temperature-sounder, a thermal limb sounder, a surface radiometric sensor package, and a… Source
- published: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:25:15 +0200 Source