aid: aetherflux
name: Cowboy Space Corporation (formerly Aetherflux)
description: 'Cowboy Space Corporation is an American orbital-infrastructure company
  founded in 2024 by Baiju Bhatt, co-founder and former co-CEO of Robinhood, headquartered
  in San Carlos, California with a second site in Seattle, Washington. It operated
  as Aetherflux Inc. from founding until May 2026, when it renamed to Cowboy Space
  Corporation and broadened its mission from space-based solar power alone to vertically
  integrated orbital infrastructure for the AI era, spanning launch vehicles, space-based
  power generation and in-orbit compute. Its flagship program is Stampede, a Low Earth
  Orbit constellation of satellites that harvest solar power to run on-orbit GPU data
  centers, with the first Galactic Brain data-center node targeted for early 2027 using
  NVIDIA Space-1 Vera Rubin modules and a small infrared power-beaming demonstrator
  satellite planned for 2026. The company concluded that launch supply was the binding
  constraint on orbital compute and is therefore also developing its own rocket, sized
  between Falcon 9 and Starship at roughly 20,000-25,000 kg of payload, whose upper
  stage is itself the payload - each one intended to become a one-megawatt orbital data
  center - with a first launch targeted for the end of 2028. It has raised roughly USD
  365 million to date, including a USD 50 million Series A in April 2025 and a USD 275
  million Series B in May 2026 at a USD 2 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures with
  IVP, Blossom Capital, SAIC, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Construct Capital, Andreessen
  Horowitz, NEA and Interlagos participating. Cowboy Space is a space hardware and energy
  infrastructure company, not a software vendor: as of August 2026 it publishes no developer
  portal, no API documentation, no SDK, no public GitHub organization and no machine-readable
  API contract of any kind. Its entire public web presence is a four-page Framer-hosted
  marketing site (home, terms, privacy, media terms of use) plus an Ashby-hosted careers
  board.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aetherflux/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://framerusercontent.com/images/0329Z2COjkiHgcW28b3reMPgXg.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pass
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Company
- Aerospace
- Space
- Satellites
- Launch Vehicles
- Data Centers
- Artificial Intelligence
- Energy
- Solar Power
- Renewable Energy
- Compute Infrastructure
- United States
apis: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aetherflux-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/aetherflux-packages.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/aetherflux-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/aetherflux-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cowboyspace.com/
- type: Careers
  url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cowboyspace
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cowboyspace.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cowboyspace.com/privacy
- type: Legal
  url: https://www.cowboyspace.com/mediatermsofuse
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cowboyspace/
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Space_Corporation
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/aetherflux_stock/