Chips in the space industry: 184 signals in the last 90 days

Signals per month

October 2026 had 57 signals against an average of 51 for Jul to Sept: up 11%. The current month is partial.

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1. 1 Nov 2026Google received the first AI response from data-center-class TPUs on its Project Suncatcher satelliteZDNet Korea · Alphabet, Project Suncatcher
2. 1 Nov 2026Google received the first AI response from a TPU on a Project Suncatcher prototype satellite, with Gemma 4 composing a haiku.ITmedia News · Alphabet, Project Suncatcher
3. 31 Oct 2026Google's experimental orbital datacenter prototype used its TPU to send a haiku to Earth.The Register · Alphabet
4. 30 Oct 2026Google’s first data center satellite is online with a TPU running Gemma 4.TechCrunch · Alphabet, Google DeepMind
5. 28 Oct 2026SpaceX closed $40 billion in debt financing to buy GPUs.Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · SpaceX
6. 28 Oct 2026Canadian Space Agency issued RFPs for three space technologiesSpaceQ
7. 27 Oct 2026SpaceX secured roughly $40 billion in Apollo-backed financing for AI chips and data-center equipment.The AI Insider · Apollo Global Management, SpaceX
8. 27 Oct 2026SpaceX signed a leasing agreement with Apollo to finance more than $40 billion of Nvidia AI chips.Heise · NVIDIA, SpaceX
9. 27 Oct 2026Microchip achieved key program milestones for its PIC64-HPSC spaceflight computing series.Satellite Evolution · Microchip
10. 26 Oct 2026SpaceX secures roughly $40 billion in GPU financing from Apollo Link.TechCrunch · SpaceX

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