October 26. Watch the skies. More soon.

We’re convinced that larger satellites are the best foundation for orbital AI compute. That conviction drives our design at Cowboy Space. AI workloads need GPUs to exchange data quickly, including the working context used during inference. Larger satellites can host larger clusters of GPUs and keep more of those exchanges on onboard networks, keeping latency to a minimum and reducing reliance on inter-satellite links for tightly coupled workloads. At Cowboy Space, our approach is one large satellite per launch with a megawatt of peak compute capacity. The data center, launch vehicle and operations are designed together to target high bandwidth, low latency and best-in-class mass per unit of compute. As the power density of compute systems grows, our megawatt satellite can keep up. With fewer satellites required for a given amount of compute, we reduce orbital congestion and improve space safety relative to more distributed constellations. We’re revealing our roadmap and design at the end of this month. Stay tuned.

The work isn’t over. We’re just getting started. Over the next few weeks, the Cowboys at Mission Control will be working toward Reason-1’s goal: beaming power from orbit to Earth. Big ambition. Back to work.

An update from Mission Control: yesterday’s progress and what’s next for Reason-1 and the Cowboy team.

Here’s Cowboy Space optical mechanical engineer E-Fann Saung on how it felt to watch Reason-1 reach orbit after years of work, and what comes next.

Reason-1 has successfully separated from @SpaceX's Falcon 9. Cowboy Space is officially in orbit. Initial operations are underway. Stay tuned for updates.

T-1 day until Reason-1 heads to orbit aboard a @SpaceX Falcon 9. Once in orbit, our first mission will attempt something no commercial spacecraft has done before: power on a kilowatt-class laser in space. CEO @BaijuBhatt and COO @JoeYaffe with Reason-1 before its journey.

This week our COO @JoeYaffe spoke at the AI Infra Summit this week on "Building the Orbital Computing & Connectivity Layer - A Roadmap for Data Centers in Space." The panel explored data centers in space, connectivity infrastructure, and what it takes to build this at scale.

On his last day, we sat down with our summer intern Evan Yip to talk through what he worked on, what surprised him, and what he's taking with him. Here's what interning at Cowboy Space Corporation looks like from the inside.

Chithra Perumal is joining Cowboy Space as CFO. Before us, Chithra led finance at Varda Space and spent nearly a decade at Amazon in three CFO roles, including 4 years running finance for AWS Data Center Expansion and managing a $31B logistics infrastructure investment. The future of computing extends beyond Earth. Chithra has built finance orgs at the forefront of both space and infrastructure. Welcome to the team.