Google to launch prototype satellite testing TPUs in orbit for Project Suncatcher
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-09-25
Google announced that Project Suncatcher, its moonshot to put AI compute in space, is scheduled for its first orbital test: launching a prototype satellite to evaluate how Google Tensor Processing Units perform in space environment. Technical details are in Google's official blog post.
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