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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Aalyria has collaborated with Google, NASA, Airbus, and the European Space Agency.
Aalyria spun out of Google (Alphabet) in September 2022.
Planet Labs is partnering with Google on an in-orbit computing project.
Google is working with Planet Labs on a space data center project aiming to launch satellites in 2027 carrying Google’s specialized computer chips into orbit.
ReOrbit has a partnership with Google Cloud to build a network of satellites that will include quantum key distribution, optical terminals, edge processors, and device-to-device capabilities.
Satlyt launched formally in 2024 and has received grants from NASA, Google, and Nvidia.
AST SpaceMobile has strategic partnerships with AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Rakuten, Google, American Tower, Bell, and stc Group.
Rama Afullo founded Satlyt and previously held managerial roles at Google and SpaceX and was one of Tesla’s first three employees in Africa.
ReOrbit partnered with Google Cloud to begin developing a space-based data network called "Space Cloud".
Sidus Space is flying onboard computing hardware that evolved from Google Tensor chips to NVIDIA Jetson NX and is preparing to launch systems with the NVIDIA AGX.
Google plans to launch test satellites by early 2027 as part of its Suncatcher project to build solar-powered data centers in space.
Google Cloud will contribute technical know-how for building the Space Cloud modeled after terrestrial data centers.
Logos Space is led by former Google executive Milo Medin and Rama Akella, an alum of Starlink and Amazon Project Kuiper.
Markus Hongisto is Google Cloud’s Finland country manager.
Milo Medin is the former vice president of Wireless Services for Google.
ReOrbit is planning a satellite network called Space Cloud in collaboration with Google Cloud.
ReOrbit plans to release full technical details and a project roadmap for Space Cloud at Google Cloud’s Next conference in Las Vegas in April.
Orange currently offers a satellite messaging service working with Skylo on certain Google Pixel smartphones.
xAI had been burning billions of dollars to compete with OpenAI and Google prior to the acquisition.
Google partnered with Planet Labs PBC to launch two Project Suncatcher prototype satellites by early 2027.