Google's Project Suncatcher to launch prototype TPU satellite on SpaceX Transporter-18
Ar_Douillard · x · 2026-09-25
Sundar Pichai officially announced Project Suncatcher, testing whether Google's TPUs can survive and operate in space. A prototype satellite built with Planet will hitch a ride on SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission, a first step toward putting compute in orbit and realizing the earlier "interplanetary diloco" distributed-training idea.
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