Google to Launch Project Suncatcher MVP on SpaceX October 1, Puts Four TPUs in Orbit for a Year
Summary
Google will fly an experimental Project Suncatcher satellite carrying four TPUs on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, designed to operate for about a year in low Earth orbit. It's the first hardware step for the moonshot Google announced in November 2025 aiming at kilometer-scale, 81-satellite compute clusters, and precedes a larger Planet Labs partnership sending two prototype satellites in early 2027.
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Originally reported by nytimes.com
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