Cowboy Space Announces 'Big Iron,' Perhaps the Most Imaginary Rocket Yet
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On the surface, Cowboy Space is an aerospace contractor pitching to launch space-based AI data centers. In reality, it's a piece of capital theater created by Baiju Bhatt, founder of the investment platform Robinhood.
This week, many online publications credulously repeated this company's press release as though it represented real planning. The announcement was the company's dreamed-of Big Iron rocket, which you can be assured will have lots and lots of power. Don't think for a second that it won't have enough power.
The proposal would see Big Iron carry just one specific type of payload: orbital AI data centers. Why would such a payload need its own special type of rocket? Well, it wouldn't—but here's the explanation offered by Bhatt at the unveiling event: "It's a fundamentally novel approach to rocketry in the modern era, in our opinion. The idea is that you have a two-stage...
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