Google puts four TPUs in orbit on October 1. The experiment is whether they survive.
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On October 1 a refrigerator-sized satellite called MVP, built with the Earth-imaging company Planet, goes up on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare from Vandenberg. It carries four of Google's Trillium TPUs into a sun-synchronous orbit at roughly 650 km, running on about a kilowatt of solar power. Th…
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- 2026-09-25 20:05 · DEV Community — AI
Google puts four TPUs in orbit on October 1. The experiment is whether they survive.