Google outlines path to thermal and radiation testing, 2027 twin satellites
1 Oct 30 · 12d ago · 3 articles · 1 post · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
Google said it will next evaluate how the TPUs perform under thermal stress and radiation exposure in orbit, building toward a 2027 milestone of two interconnected satellites.
“Verifying our TPUs can reliably execute workloads in space paves the way for our next milestone of twin interconnected satellites in 2027.”
GoogleGoogle Research Developer of Project Suncatcher
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Google, 12d ago
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first by www.tokenpost.com, 12d ago
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Putting AI in space is a silly idea. How do you cool it reliably? How do you handle rad-hardness? How do you even get the gear up there? It's one of the most expensive places to put mass.Using geothermal power or floating solar arrays in the ocean makes way more sense. It's much easier to access, you have water for a heat sink, and you're far away…
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This was a completely vapid article. I expected some technical details at least, but instead it's an LLM generated poem confirming it worked in a short interval, which nobody doubts it would. All eyes are on long term heat dissipation and the impact of radiation and success of radiation hardening meterials and processes.
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Is this the piece of junk that can only run for 15min at a time before it overheats? They probably could have done some more analysis before launching it into space.. Like put the radiator in a vacuum chamber maybe? Or do some thermal modelling? Or did they know it would do this and launch it anyway? Would love to know why.
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That was a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830606 This is just a status update, which the title is pretty clear about.
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So their weights are just floating up there?I suppose it’s beyond hard anyone would hijack their satellite but still. Wonder if they put any physical security on it anyway.
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I still can't think of a use case for this besides making it difficult to shut down illegal AIs.
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Google taking a lesson from the marketing school of Musk? Public spectacle to boost stock price?
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