Cranktown City spotted an eight-foot dish online and decided the usual starter kit of a small Yagi or a handheld weather dish simply would not do for a first serious look at signals coming down from space. What followed was a full-scale articulating mount planted on a large post set into a concrete pad, with […]
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Monday morning at Starbase on the Texas coast, a 407-foot stack of stainless steel left the pad at 7:48 local time with 33 Raptor engines burning methane underneath. Flight 14 carried a clearer assignment than the thirteen tests before it. Earlier flights stayed on suborbital arcs. This one was meant to stay up, place real […]
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Project Suncatcher Flies Google AI Chips Into Orbit to Learn If Compute Can Live on Sunlight
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Google will send its first AI chips into space next week as the opening flight of Project Suncatcher, a long-term research effort to find out whether machine learning hardware can run in low Earth orbit on solar power. A refrigerator-sized prototype named MVP, built with Planet Labs and carrying four Tensor Processing Units, is booked […]