Cowboy Space leases Kent, Washington facility to build orbital data center hardware
Cowboy Space
Cowboy Space is leasing a 291,000-square-foot former Costco building in Kent, Wash. to build its orbital data center satellites.
what happened
Cowboy Space signed a lease for a 291,035-square-foot industrial facility at 7650 S. 228th St. in Kent, Washington, a former Costco distribution center, per SpaceNews reporter Jeff Foust and Engineers and Architects of America. The site will produce hardware for the company's planned orbital data center satellites, adding roughly 300 jobs, and is described as the largest industrial lease in the Puget Sound region so far this year.
why it matters
Cowboy Space raised a $275 million Series B in May to build rockets with data-center upper stages and has said it aims to launch as early as 2028; a nearly 300,000-square-foot production facility is the company's first concrete manufacturing commitment and puts it in direct build-out competition with SpaceX and Starcloud for the emerging orbital-compute market. Kent already hosts Blue Origin and Stoke Space, deepening the Puget Sound region's role as a Pacific Northwest launch-hardware hub.
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quick facts
- Companies
- Cowboy Space
- Category
- product
- Impact
- notable
- SNR
- 4 / 5
- Event date
- 2026-09-05
- Published
- 2026-09-06 05:26 UTC