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 ...

Over the last several weeks, KHON2 received numerous calls and e-mails about a balloon flying high over Oahu and Molokai. “Around 10 this morning up Maunalani ...

Loons are high altitude balloons that provide internet to remote areas. It is the third layer of connectivity ecosystem to help places with minimum reach receive connectivity with the rest of the ...

One of Google’s Project Loon balloons launched in June 2013 over Christchurch, New Zealand’s south island. Only one out of three inhabitants of this planet has regular access to the Internet.

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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 ...

This is why the launch of the partnership between Telkom Kenya and Alphabet’s (Google parent company) Loon to beam Internet to underserved areas using high-flying balloons equipped with ...