According to CoinMeta, Google's project will launch a satellite the size of a refrigerator, manufactured by [company name not provided], on October 1st. The satellite will be equipped with four Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and one kilowatt of solar power, and will conduct a survival test for orbital computing. Named [satellite name not provided], this is the first physical manifestation of a research project announced by Google in November 2025, aimed at exploring whether space can support scalable machine learning infrastructure. This launch is part of a shared mission between several organizations; the satellite will operate in space for about 15 minutes before being forced to cool down due to excessive heat. Google's goal is to collect data in orbit to understand how its systems perform under the physical stresses of rocket launch and the extreme conditions of space. Google is not the only company pursuing orbital computing; [another company name not provided] plans to provide about 1 gigawatt of orbital computing capacity per year by 2027.