Cowboy Space Reveals Big Iron Data Center Rocket
26 Oct 2026
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PAYLOAD - This town ain’t big enough for just one launch provider.
On Monday evening, Cowboy Space pulled back the curtain on Big Iron—a launch vehicle whose upper stage is designed to remain in orbit as a megawatt-class data center.
“What we want to do is put a lot of available power in orbit, in our case to power chips, to power AI data centers,” Cowboy Space COO and Chief Legal Officer Joseph Yaffe told Payload. “The most efficient and most effective way to do that is to build our own vehicle to get us into space.”
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Note: Cowboy Space opened a new facility in Kent for its launch, satellite, and orbital data center programs.
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