Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit

Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit blog.google

Google's prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, built in partnership with Planet, launched into orbit aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX.

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Kevin_Flynnabout 3 hours ago

Smells like a cover story for military AI module validation testing.

The AI industry spends crazy money to reduce latency and increase density. The act of placing resources in space, to be used by people on earth, only increases latency, and reduces density. The performance metrics are ops/power/space/$, not G ratings, unless its being validated for flight.

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