{"id":1038439,"date":"2026-09-25T07:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038439"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:22:46","slug":"project-suncatcher-google-to-test-chips-for-ai-computing-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/project-suncatcher-google-to-test-chips-for-ai-computing-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Suncatcher: Google to test chips for AI computing in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Alphabet&#8217;s Google announced on Thursday that it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort exploring space as a potential location for large-scale AI computing infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The mission, scheduled on SpaceX&#8217;s upcoming Transporter-18 rideshare launch in partnership with Planet Labs, will deploy a satellite carrying Google Tensor Processing Units into low Earth orbit to assess hardware reliability against launch forces, radiation, and extreme temperatures. <\/p>\n<p>Google said it tested its TPUs while running AI workloads in a facility at the University of California, Davis, but that orbital testing was needed to understand how the hardware performs in the real environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Alphabet&#8217;s Google announced on Thursday that it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort exploring space as a potential location for large-scale AI computing infrastructure. The mission, scheduled on SpaceX&#8217;s upcoming Transporter-18 rideshare launch in partnership with Planet Labs, will deploy a satellite carrying Google Tensor Processing Units into low Earth orbit to assess hardware reliability against launch forces, radiation, and extreme temperatures. Google said it tested its TPUs while running AI workloads in a facility at the University of California, Davis, but that orbital testing was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038458,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038439\/revisions\/1038458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}