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Project Suncatcher

Project Suncatcher is a Google research project exploring solar-powered satellites equipped with TPUs to run machine learning computation in space.

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Project Suncatcher is a long-term research project Google announced in 2025. It studies whether a constellation of satellites carrying Tensor Processing Units, placed in orbits that receive almost continuous sunlight and linked together, could work like a data center. The project includes plans to launch test satellites with the satellite company Planet Labs.

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The satellite is part of Project Suncatcher, a long-term Google research effort with Planet Labs that tests whether data centers can operate in space.

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