NASA announced on September 9, 2026, that it had awarded Relativity Space Inc. a place on its Launch Services (NLS) II contract for the company's Terran R launch service, using the contract's on-ramp provision. The agency said Terran R would be available for NASA to use on future missions. The report is attributed to NASA's September 9, 2026, contract release.

NASA described NLS II as a set of multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, with an ordering period running through June 2030 and an overall period of performance through December 2032. The annual on-ramp provision lets new providers compete for future missions and lets existing contractors introduce vehicles not currently covered by their NLS II contracts.

According to NASA, the contracts support the goals of its Human Spaceflight, Science, and Research and Technology mission directorates, and the agency can also provide launch services to other government agencies such as NOAA. The Launch Services Program Office at Kennedy Space Center in Florida manages the contracts.