Cowboy Space plans to develop a combined data center and upper-stage rocket.
Credit: Cowboy Space
In their ambitious designs for orbiting data centers, space companies are going to new lengths—literally. Take SpaceX’s proposed AI1. Its wingspan with solar arrays fully extended is about 70 m (230 ft.). That is the better part of a football field, or a few meters shorter than the solar arrays...
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