Cowboy Space Corporation

We’re hiring across all disciplines at Cowboy Space Corporation. Earth’s energy grid cannot run at the pace of AI. We are building the orbital infrastructure to solve that. We are looking for exceptional people to tackle the AI energy problem. Open roles are based on-site in San Carlos, CA and Seattle, WA.

As an honoree on the recent "Forbes 250: America's Greatest Innovators" list, our CEO, Baiju Bhatt, was invited to speak today at the Forbes and America250 "America Innovates" event in San Francisco. Born from the Forbes 250 list, this event series is designed to inspire the next generation of American innovators and entrepreneurs. During his session, Baiju discussed Cowboy Space Corporation and the future of American innovation.

What does it mean to be a Cowboy today? The future of technology requires real infrastructure, which is why we're building rockets and a power grid in space. We are establishing the foundation for an entirely new orbital economy. Solving hard engineering problems in LEO: that is what being a cowboy actually means today.

Today marks the beginning of a new era. We are now Cowboy Space Corporation. We are building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence. Using an integrated system of satellites and rockets, we will send high-performance compute and optical data transmission to Low Earth Orbit. To fuel this next chapter and the launch of our latest technology, we’ve raised a $275M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Index Ventures, with participation from new investors IVP, Blossom Capital and SAIC, alongside existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Construct Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates-NEA, Interlagos and Baiju Bhatt. Our constellation of satellites, Stampede, will harness abundant solar power to run on-orbit GPU data centers. With each launch, Stampede grows the power and compute capacity for humanity. Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We can. Why now? AI is driving the largest infrastructure build-out in recent history, and the power grid on planet Earth can't keep pace. In major US markets, average grid connection lead times for new data centers can run 5-7 years or more. Meanwhile, AI demand is flat-out outgrowing Earth's pastures. Full-Stack Architecture: Traditional architecture treats the rocket as a workhorse and the satellite as freight. In our system, the rocket's upper stage is the satellite itself. It's a 1-megawatt data center with active thermal management and integrated compute, designed as one unified vehicle from the ground up. We trim the fat on redundant structure and avionics, dedicating every possible kilogram of compute to Low Earth Orbit. Furthermore, by owning our manufacturing and dedicated launch sites, we vertically integrate core technologies that enable deploying compute at scale. Later this year, we are scheduled to launch our first satellite into orbit to demonstrate space-to-Earth power beaming. Our second mission, targeted for early 2027, will operate a cluster of GPUs for high-performance compute and demonstrate end-to-end optical data transmission from space to Earth. This will pave the way for the launch of our rocket, scheduled for the end of 2028.

Monday. Eyes on the frontier.

To the high frontier. A new era. 05/11/2026.

It was a pleasure attending the Draper Associates summit. Our CEO, Baiju Bhatt, sat down with Tim Draper for a fireside chat to talk about Aetherflux and the future of space technology. Thank you to everyone who joined the discussion and to Tim Draper for bringing such a great group of minds together.

Meet Tanvi Bhargava, a Software Engineer here at Aetherflux! Before joining our team, Tanvi spent nearly three years as an Embedded Software Engineer at Relativity Space. Prior to that, she studied electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Watch the video below to hear directly from Tanvi about her engineering journey and what she is building with us right now.

Great discussions last night at Stanford University for "The New Defense Industrial Base: Lessons from the Pioneers," moderated by Ernestine Fu Mak. Baiju Bhatt joined Steve Bowsher (IQT) and Mehdi Alhassani (Palantir Technologies) on the "Building the Full Stack Defense AI Infrastructure" panel to talk through the physical realities of scaling defense tech. We are building orbital power architecture to support these next-generation systems. Thanks to everyone who put this event together. Stay tuned for more on this discussion.

We’re growing our team at Aetherflux. If you’re a Software or Avionics Engineer looking to help us scale space-based power and compute, we want to hear from you. Build the future. Apply today.