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.The newly announced relationship, and others between NASA and private industry, is designed to allow the agency to concentrate its resources on important science discovery.NASA is targeting 2028 for the launch of the Aeolus mission, which will be designed and built at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, where it will also be integrated on Relativity’s spacecraft for testing ahead of launch. Do you think that private companies are most likely going to do a better job ?
