A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.

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.

Relativity Space, now led by Eric Schmidt, competes with SpaceX for Mars missions after raising over $1.3B and securing $3B in launch contracts.

NASA has selected Relativity Space, now owned by Eric Schmidt, to develop a spacecraft for a Mars mission, intensifying competition with SpaceX in the race to the Red Planet.

This partnership marks the latest foray into space exploration for Relativity Space, which aims to build cheap, reusable rockets

A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.

The company owned by Google’s former CEO scored its first NASA mission.