LA PLATA, Maryland — Geospatial satellite fleet operator Planet Labs PBC sought to strike a balance between grinning up investor excitement about its Google contract to test data centers in space and acknowledging that the technology is years away from being developed.
Planet’s R&D contract with Google “moonshot” program Suncatcher is to build to small demonstration satellites, based on Planet’s new Owl platform but with extended solar arrays, to launch in 2027. The satellites would test the use of Google’s Tensor Processing Units . . .
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