While the idea behind Loon sounds simple in theory, it turns out that it was more complicated than just floating up some weather balloon with LTE base stations strapped to them. A NASA super ...

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The attempt to beam broadband from balloons was called “Loon” and started life in the group once known as “Google X”. After Alphabet became Google’s parent entity it kept the lab alive, ...

There are some alternatives if standard Internet access isn’t available, and one of the more ambitious is providing Internet access by balloon. Project Loon is perhaps the most famous of these ...

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One of those solutions might lie in giant internet balloons that float on the edge of space, also known as Alphabet’s Project Loon. A telecommunications company would transmit internet to a ...