Despite having multiple ongoing trial projects by 2019, Loon as an independent entity was still reliant on its originating company Alphabet (formerly Google, now the parent company of Google).

This collaboration aims to scale the deployment of Taara's wireless optical communication technology, particularly the Taara ...

Alphabet pulled the plug on Loon in 2021 and focused on Taara instead, using its technology to beam broadband across the Congo River and the streets of Nairobi.

Alphabet is no longer feeding X, the department for particularly daring ideas, as usual. Third parties are to step in.

Reminiscent of the Teledesic project in the 1990s that attempted to form a network of satellites for Internet access, Project Loon was a system from Alphabet aimed at providing affordable Internet ...