Travis Beals is a senior director of product management at Google.
His team recently shook a satellite in San Francisco to see if it would survive launch.
They inspected the solar panels.
They marked the screws to check for movement.
Everything held.
The satellite is called MVP, and it carries four TPUs.
That is roughly the computing capacity of a single data center server, powered by about a kilowatt of solar panels, launching next month on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg.
Two problems shape the mission.
Radiation causes bit flips, so Google ran the chips through a cyclotron at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory to simulate about five years in orbit, and found that restarts usually clear the errors.
Heat has nowhere to go without air, so the chips push warmth through thermal interface sheets, aluminum and copper layers, and out to a radiator panel.
They run for about 15 minutes before shutting down to cool.
Google calls the launch an early experiment rather than a service.
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