What is Cowboy Space, the company Baiju Bhatt presented on The Shawn Ryan Show?

Cowboy Space Corporation is the space company Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt started about two and a half years ago as an energy company in space, first pursuing space-based solar power. After its Series B in the spring it took the Cowboy Space name and widened the plan to building solar-powered AI data centers in orbit and its own rocket to launch them. It has already put its first test satellite in orbit.

• Bhatt said the company began in a small apartment space in El Granada before moving on to building hardware.
• Bhatt described the business as a data center, rocket, lasers and optics, photovoltaics and power company at once.

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on The Shawn Ryan Show (2026-10-27). Read the whole episode summary →

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