Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit
11 hours ago
- Project Suncatcher's prototype satellite, built with Planet, launched into orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission.
- Contact with the satellite has been confirmed, and it is operating as expected.
- The mission is a first step toward exploring space-based scalable machine learning infrastructure.
- The team will gather in-orbit data on how TPUs respond to spaceflight stresses, radiation, and thermal extremes.
- A peer-reviewed paper detailing the mission's research is published in Joule.
- Some tests can only be done in space, and findings will guide future design refinements.