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Google prepares Project Suncatcher test satellite to send Trillium TPUs into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission

Deployment Provisional 72% confidence first seen

Google is preparing Project Suncatcher, a test of whether its Trillium TPU compute hardware can operate in space. Coverage says the effort will launch a small satellite prototype carrying four TPUs on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission after radiation and other stress testing, with results guiding whether a larger TPU-in-orbit approach follows.

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Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop Import AI newsletter Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there. The New Stack

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