{"id":1040639,"date":"2026-10-03T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040639"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:16:07","slug":"google-parent-alphabet-to-send-in-house-ai-chips-into-orbit-on-spacex-falcon-9-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/03\/google-parent-alphabet-to-send-in-house-ai-chips-into-orbit-on-spacex-falcon-9-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Google-parent Alphabet to send in-house AI chips into Orbit on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google-parent company Alphabet is preparing to send its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, marking an initial operational step toward evaluating whether supercomputing facilities can operate in space. The uncrewed launch is slated for 11:15 am PT Thursday, October 1 (12:45 am IST, October 2) from California&#8217;s Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.The mission, flying under SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-18 rideshare program, carries satellites from Planet Labs, including a solar-powered prototype system fitted with Google\u2019s custom-built Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).<\/p>\n<p>What is Project Suncatcher, Google\u2019s orbital AI test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google-parent company Alphabet is preparing to send its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, marking an initial operational step toward evaluating whether supercomputing facilities can operate in space. The uncrewed launch is slated for 11:15 am PT Thursday, October 1 (12:45 am IST, October 2) from California&#8217;s Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.The mission, flying under SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-18 rideshare program, carries satellites from Planet Labs, including a solar-powered prototype system fitted with Google\u2019s custom-built Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). What is Project Suncatcher, Google\u2019s orbital AI test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040639","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040640,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040639\/revisions\/1040640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}