Forget rockets — Longshot wants to fire cargo into space from a gun. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

By Tim Fernholz · TechCrunch · Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:05 (58m ago) · Original article ↗

Longshot is trying to build a gun big enough to make space data centers a reality.

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