We’ve received our first response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite.
This week, we reached our "Hello World" milestone: the first-ever AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.
On October 1, the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite successfully launched, initiating our research mission to power AI compute in space. After completing commissioning tasks, we achieved a significant milestone: generating AI text from a TPU in orbit. We uploaded a prompt to our onboard Gemma 4 model, asking it to compose a haiku about being in space.
As the satellite passed over Svalbard, Norway, the response confirmed our success: "Blue marble below, Data streams in silent grace, Starlight feeds my core. ✨" Subsequent tests included space-themed limericks and telemetry prompts to assess TPUs under space conditions. Future tests will evaluate thermal stress and radiation exposure effects on the TPUs.
This accomplishment brings us closer to deploying twin interconnected satellites in 2027, advancing our cosmic moonshot.
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