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MVP

Google's first Project Suncatcher test satellite, a refrigerator-size spacecraft carrying TPU chips, built on a Planet Labs satellite platform.

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Google's four-TPU MVP satellite tests whether radiation and heat rule out orbital AI compute

Google's MVP satellite takes four TPUs and about 1 kW of solar power into orbit to test whether AI chips survive radiation and shed their own heat. Its results will show whether rebooting away bit flips and cooling through a radiator can carry into the constellations Google has already sketched.

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