Forget rockets — Longshot wants to fire cargo into space from a gun. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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A gun-based launch system aimed at space data centers is a reminder that if compute keeps chasing cheap power and cooling, orbit becomes part of the design space. Early-stage, but infra planners should at least track how non-rocket launch concepts could change assumptions about latency, sovereignty, and data gravity over a 10+ year horizon.
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