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 balloons equipped with ...

Project Loon, developed by the ... Google says they will use wind patterns to direct the balloons across the globe, and solar power to run the onboard equipment. "In full sun, these panels produce ...

What started out as a project in a student-run club at Stanford ... even double circumnavigating the globe. Our smart ...

We’ve reported on “space” balloons before. Heck, some of us have even launched a few. Usually they go way up in the air, take some cool pictures, and land within driving (and retrieving ...

(Bloomberg) -- Google parent Alphabet Inc. shut down Loon, an audacious project to beam ... as an effort to blanket the globe with internet connections using giant balloons drifting on currents ...