NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX
June 18, 2026
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars. On Tuesday, NASA said it hired the company to build a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments, launch it into space, and
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June 17, 2026
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Arianespace launches its heaviest payload to date with Amazon Leo flight
June 17, 2026
An Arianespace Ariane 64 rocket lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to begin the Leo Europe 03 mission
Lava planet has hydrogen-rich, active atmosphere
June 17, 2026
It’s 2158, and you’re chugging away on your PhD in Planetary Volcanology from the University of Utopia Planitia on Mars.
