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Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit


“Gives you a sense of how big this crisis is.”…

In the nearly two months since former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt acquired Relativity Space, the billionaire has not said much publicly about his plans for the launch company. If you were a billionaire seeking to put large data centers into space and wanted control of launch, Relativity is probably the only game in town. As Ars has previously reported, there are some considerable flaws with Relativity's approach to developing Terran R. However, these problems can be fixed with additional money, and Schmidt has brought that to the company over the last half-year.

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