Google Project Loon: Our series to help you learn more about this ambitious project.
First, to dive
you inside the project, you just have to know that Project Loon is a network of
balloons traveling on the edge of
space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill in coverage gaps and bring people back online after disasters.
space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill in coverage gaps and bring people back online after disasters.
Project Loon starts in June 2013 with an experimental
pilot in New Zealand. A small group of Project Loon pioneers will test the
technology in Christchurch and Canterbury. Therefore in this series, we are
going to learn more about the technologies, the folks, the strategy behind this
project and how it works.