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Google launched its first orbital compute satellite carrying a TPU to test in-orbit AI infrastructure under Project Suncatcher, and released a peer-reviewed paper arguing Starship would need roughly 1,600 launches to make space data centers economically viable, with launch costs potentially falling to $200/kg by 2035.
YC shares a podcast episode with Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston, whose company launched an Nvidia H100 GPU into orbit and trained the first LLM in space, raising $200M and planning 88,000 satellites.