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| Google project loon balloon |
Project Loon is a research and development project being
developed by X (formerly Google X) with the mission of providing Internet
access to rural and remote areas. The project uses high-altitude
balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of about
18 km (11 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up
to 4G-LTE speeds. It was named Project Loon, since even Google itself
found the idea of providing Internet access to the remaining 5 billion
population unprecedented and crazy/loony.
Project Loon began in June 2013 with an experimental pilot in New Zealand, where
a small group of Project Loon pioneers tested Loon technology. The results of
the pilot test have been used to improve the technology, and continued
refinements are now being tested in an ongoing series of research flights in
California’s Central Valley.
Project Loon balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and
the weather. In the Stratosphere, there are many layers of wind, and each layer
of wind varies in direction and speed. Loon balloons go where they’re needed by
rising or descending into a layer of wind blowing in the desired Direction of
travel. People can connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached
to their building. The signal bounces from this antenna up to the balloon
network, and then down to the global Internet on Earth.
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