Loon LLC was an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary working on providing Internet access to rural and remote areas.

2021年1月28日 · After a journey of a decade, what started as Project Loon by Google is no more. Promoted as a way to bring communications to the most remote parts of the globe, it used gigantic, high-altitude...

Loon's balloons traveled along the edge of space to expand internet connectivity to rural areas, fill coverage gaps, and improve network resilience in the event of disaster. Loon spent nine years developing technologies to deliver connectivity from the stratosphere

2021年10月21日 · Simply put, the mission here was to use balloons to carry mobile Wi-Fi routers floating in the stratosphere to bring internet access to inaccessible regions with little to no existing infrastructure. No doubt, it was an ambitious project—one that had just as many challenges and complexities as it had potential.

2021年1月22日 · Google's parent-company Alphabet is scrapping a company set up to build giant balloons to beam the internet to rural areas. Loon was a long-term experimental bet from the tech giant's "X"...

2013年8月13日 · Inside Project Loon, an ambitious plan to bring the Internet to a huge swath of as-yet-unconnected humanity via thousands of solar-powered, high-pressure balloons floating some 60,000 feet above...

2020年5月8日 · Loon, a subsidiary of Alphabet that builds out cheap internet through balloons, was under top wraps for years. Now that it’s starting to fly, here are the answers to the big questions about the...

2019年7月23日 · Loon recently achieved an important milestone: Our balloons have flown over 1 million hours in Earth’s stratosphere. In all of those hours aloft, Loon’s balloons have traveled nearly 40 million kilometers — enough to make 100 trips to …

2021年9月30日 · Since then, Loon’s balloons explored the stratosphere for just shy of a decade, flying more than 70 million kilometers — enough to make 180 trips to the moon — collecting temperature, pressure, and wind readings every 60 seconds.

2021年2月16日 · Google blew $100 million a year building giant balloons to spread internet access. Insiders describe how Larry Page's passion project imploded.