Space startup Cowboy Space Corporation (previously Aetherflux) has filed with the FCC for a new 20,000-satellite NGSO constellation named in the application as the 'Stampede Data Center System'.
“Cowboy Space seeks to address the critical energy bottleneck throttling American innovation in AI and data center deployments by pioneering cutting-edge technologies for space-based solar power, optical transmission via infrared lasers, and in-orbit data center applications. Enter Cowboy Space’s Stampede,” the application, written by chief operating officer Joseph Yaffe, reads.
Render of a Cowboy Space rocket – Cowboy Space
The application specifies a system with an operational lifetime of five years operating in dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbits contained in orbital shells between 700 (434 mile) and 1000km (621 mile) altitudes, communicating through optical laser links, which will begin launching in 2028.
The design of the satellites remains unfinished, as do the company’s rockets, which themselves must be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
