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Josh Dinner

A private company will build and launch NASA's next Mars orbiter in 2028 — and it's not SpaceX

A large crowd sits facing to men in suits at one end of a rocket stage laid horizontally.

NASA has announced a new commercial partnership for the next satellite headed to the Red Planet.

California-based Relativity Space will design, build and launch the spacecraft that carries NASA's Aeolus instrument suite to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet's global environment. Aeolus will collect data on Martian dust and cloud cover, winds and temperatures, according to a NASA release.

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