October 1st, 2026 Google in partnership with planet labs launched a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. This launch is the first step of Project Suncatcher. Google is working long-term to one day host scalable machine learning infrastructure in space.
Over the coming weeks, in-orbit data will be gathered on how Google TPUs handle the physical stress, radiation, and thermal extremes of space. This will then refine future designs.
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