Relativity Space Advances Private Mars Orbiter as Proof-of-Concept for Interplanetary Missions

Relativity Space unveils an Interplanetary Sciences Program to privately pursue planetary missions, beginning with a 2028 Mars science and telecommunications orbiter that will carry NASA Ames atmospheric profiling gear and a radar for subsurface mapping, serve as a high-bandwidth communications node with AI-ready compute, and be launched on the Terran R, funded by an undisclosed philanthropic source as a proof-of-concept for future solar-system missions.