🛰 Google’s AI hardware is now being tested in orbit.
A Project Suncatcher prototype, built with Planet, launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission on October 1. Google says it has made contact and the satellite is operating as expected.
The experiment will measure how Google’s TPUs — chips designed for machine learning — handle spaceflight, radiation and extreme temperatures. The results will help assess whether future AI infrastructure could operate in space.
This is an early hardware experiment; large-scale deployment is still a research goal.
Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/project-suncatcher-prototype/
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Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit.
Google's prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, built in partnership with Planet, launched into orbit aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX.
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