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

A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA’s Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet’s global environment.

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