Google's involvement in the space industry primarily revolves around its Google Public Sector division, which collaborates with organizations like The Aerospace Corporation and NASA, providing cutting-edge AI and machine learning tools, cloud computing services (like Vertex AI), and high-performance computing to advance space-related projects, including space weather forecasting and air quality monitoring. Google's technologies are also used in research projects related to aeronautics. Key partners include NASA, The Aerospace Corporation, and the U.S. Space Force.
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Google acquired Skybox, a satellite imagery startup, for $500 million in 2014.
Planet is partnering with Google on Project Suncatcher to test space-based compute infrastructure.
Starcloud ran Google’s Gemma language model from space after launching Starcloud-1.
Quentin Diduck led electrical engineering work on MicroLED technology at Google’s Raxium and served as director of R&D at Eridan Communications.
Nvidia’s Starcloud-1 satellite is training and running Google’s open-source Gemma model as a proof of concept.
AST SpaceMobile’s strategic partners include AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Rakuten, Google, American Tower, Bell, and stc Group.
AST SpaceMobile received a strategic investment from Google and AT&T.
Google’s Project Suncatcher plans to fly two prototype satellites equipped with Google-developed TPU AI chips in 2027 in partnership with Planet.
After a November 2025 launch, the Starcloud-1 NVIDIA H100-equipped satellite began training a version of Google’s Gemini model in December 2025.
Aalyria was founded in 2021 by CEO Chris Taylor, CTO Brian Barritt, and others through the acquisition of two inventions developed with over a decade of research from Google and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Aalyria has announced partnerships or strategic collaborations with Telesat, Google Public Sector, NASA, Airbus, ALL.SPACE, Keysight Technologies, Logos Space, and the European Space Agency.
Google Earth AI imagery models will be integrated into Vantor’s mission applications beginning with the Sentry application to support persistent site monitoring and broad-area maritime monitoring workflows.
Vantor has signed an agreement to integrate Google Earth AI imagery models into the Vantor Tensorglobe platform.
Vantor can fine-tune and retrain Google Earth AI models using a customer’s sovereign data combined with Vantor satellite imagery and third-party commercial imagery.
Vantor is the first spatial intelligence company to deploy Google Earth AI models in air-gapped government environments.
Google Earth AI imagery models are architectures trained on massive datasets of satellite and aerial imagery to map buildings and roads, locate specific objects and features, assess post-event damage, and semantically understand scenes.
The combined use of Google Earth AI imagery models and Vantor satellite imagery enables detection of objects of interest, identification of patterns of change, and description of activity with operational context.
EnduroSat closed a $48 million investment round led by Founders Fund and a $104 million round backed by Riot Ventures, Google Ventures, Shrug Capital, and the European Innovation Council Fund.
Aalyria’s core technologies were originally developed over more than a decade at Google.
Amazon, Google, Nvidia, and SpaceX have committed to early trials of orbital data centers.