Alphabet's Loon has officially begun operating its commercial internet service in Kenya . This is the first large-scale commercial offering that makes use of Loon's high-altitude balloons, which ...

In 2015, The People’s Daily celebrated the Chinese team’s accomplishment in sending an airship that stayed aloft at 65,000 feet, a feat that required advanced materials in the balloon’s skin. In 2019, ...

The video was uploaded to the Project Loon Google+ page. It sees Loon’s project leader Mike Cassidy giving a behind-the-scenes look at how Project Loon has progressed from its earliest stages to the ...

Mobile data might seem near-ubiquitous, but the world still has major dead zones and huge expanses with poor coverage. Anyone that has fervently and consistently checked the availability of Verizon's ...

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Google's parent company Alphabet has handed around 200 patents associated with its failed internet balloon startup, Loon, to Japanese investment giant SoftBank. Project Loon started out as one of ...

Google parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, an ambitious service aimed at delivering internet access to remote areas using balloons. In a blog post published Thursday, Astro Teller, the ...

Google this: Where did one of the Internet giant's high-tech, high-atmosphere balloons land? If Google knows, it's not saying. But this much we do know - or at least we were told Thursday by the ...

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Google claims its Project Loon initiative is on track to provide a realistic alternative to traditional mobile networks in unconnected regions of the world. Loon is an ambitious project that attempts ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc is shutting down Loon after concluding the business, which offers balloons as an alternative to cell towers, is not commercially viable, Google's parent ...

ESA's novel Aeolus satellite reliably measures wind speed also in higher air layers and thus in a region of the atmosphere where other direct global wind measurements are relatively sparse. This is ...