Google's Project Loon to Bring Balloon-Powered Internet to the Entire World
The project uses balloons "traveling on the edge of space" that rise and fall according to signals from building antennas in remote areas of the world.
Last year, Google introduced Project Loon, a program that aims to provide Internet access to the rural and remote areas that make up two-thirds of the world’s population.
The project uses balloons “traveling on the edge of space” that rise and fall according to signals from building antennas. Each balloon in the network travels in the stratosphere high above commercial air space for several months at a time.
The company started out with 30 balloons in a pilot program in New Zealand.
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