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 ...

The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.

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Canada’s biggest satellite operator, Telesat, has signed agreements with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Alphabet’s Loon aerial telecommunicatio ...

OAKLAND, California: Google parent Alphabet Inc is shutting down its Internet balloon business, Loon, which aimed to provide a less expensive alternative to cell towers, saying on Thursday that ...

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 ...

August 6th saw the maiden public flight of the world's first hybrid hot air balloon, which flies by heating regular air from the sun alone. (Google's Project Loon balloons are also solar-heated ...

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 ...