SpaceX will launch Planet Labs satellites equipped with Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) on the Transporter-18 mission, marking the first in-orbit test of Alphabet's Project Suncatcher. This initiative aims to develop solar-powered AI computing infrastructure in space, leveraging near-constant sunlight in low Earth orbit to run scalable machine learning workloads. Alphabet, a major SpaceX investor, sees this as a step toward creating data centers in space, which SpaceX also plans to build using satellite swarms. The launch highlights growing efforts to explore space-based AI infrastructure despite technical challenges like radiation and cooling requirements.
Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) holds a massive market cap of $4.19 trillion and shows a 1-day gain of 1.72% on Pluang as of Oct 01, 2026 18:32 WIB. SpaceX (SPCX), with a market cap of $1.99 trillion, is up 0.43% on the same platform and time. Despite high sell activity for GOOGL at 93%, and 72% for SPCX, both companies remain key players in innovative tech sectors, reflected in their substantial trading volumes of 36,642,402 and 79,150,750 shares respectively on Pluang.
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