Answered from The Space Technology That Could Change History Forever · The Shawn Ryan Show · 2026-10-27
Big Iron Express is the cargo version of the Cowboy Space rocket that Baiju Bhatt unveiled at the end of the event. It is meant to fly third-party payloads of about 18 tons to low Earth orbit, with sign-ups at cowboyspace.com. Bhatt said commercial access to orbit is sorely missing while one major company controls most of it, and that abundance in space cannot happen if only one company launches.
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