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 Pixel 9 and 10 smartphones include an emergency messaging service called Satellite SOS in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.
'au Starlink Direct' also supports data communication, allowing access to select applications such as Google Maps and X.
Google identified thermal management, high-bandwidth ground communications, and on-orbit system reliability as engineering challenges for Project Suncatcher.
Project Suncatcher is a research project out of Google’s X, known as the 'moonshot factory.'
Google is launching a new project called Project Suncatcher focused on in-space computing and solar-powered satellites.
Google concluded that the core concepts of space-based machine learning computing are viable and not limited by fundamental physics or insurmountable economic barriers.
Google is working with Planet to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 to test Google's models and TPU hardware in space.
KDDI's Starlink service will support apps like Google Maps and X without coverage in August 2025 and will also offer a maritime Wi-Fi service called 'Ferry Wi-Fi'.
Google plans to explore how a network of solar-powered satellites equipped with Google Tensor Processing Unit AI chips could enhance AI computing in space.
The new funding round included participation from Riot Ventures, Google Ventures, Lux Capital, Shrug Capital, and the European Innovation Council Fund.
The funding round included participation from Riot Ventures, Google Ventures, Lux Capital, the European Innovation Council Fund, and Shrug Capital.
Starcloud-1 will also run Google's small language model, Gemma.
The research team at the University of Otago is led by Associate Professor Robert Odolinski, a Visiting Researcher with Google.
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, communicated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding this landmark development.
Google plans to invest $15 billion over the next five years to establish a gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
India's Information Technology Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, expressed gratitude to Google for the investment, emphasizing its importance for India's AI vision.
The Google AI hub in Visakhapatnam is expected to scale to multiple gigawatts and serve as a digital backbone for India.
The Google AI hub will combine gigawatt-scale compute capacity, a new international subsea gateway, and large-scale energy infrastructure.
Google launched AlphaEarth Foundations during Q3 2025 to create a planetary-scale AI model from satellite and aerial data.
T-Satellite supports apps for mapping, weather, messaging, and social media, including Google Messages, Pixel Weather, Apple Music, and Samsung Weather.