# Google Research — Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2025-11-04T16:58:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1396-exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design

Google Research announces Project Suncatcher, a moonshot exploring the design of a space-based AI infrastructure system using solar-powered satellite constellations equipped with TPUs and free-space optical links. The post describes a preprint paper detailing progress on challenges such as high-bandwidth inter-satellite communication, orbital dynamics, and radiation tolerance of TPUs.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/:

> Project Suncatcher is a moonshot exploring a new frontier: equipping solar-powered satellite constellations with TPUs and free-space optical links to one day scale machine learning compute in space.

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