[Google's Space Data Center Prototype Satellite Completes First On-Orbit AI Inference] Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on the X platform that Google's Project Suncatcher project has reached a "hello world" milestone: several weeks after launching the prototype satellite, the team successfully sent commands into orbit, activated the satellite's TPU, and ran a prompt. The ground subsequently received the first complete response, a haiku. Project Suncatcher aims to deploy solar-powered satellites carrying TPUs into space to explore using solar energy to power AI computing. The prototype satellite was launched into orbit in early October aboard a SpaceX mission.