He is co-founder and first project leader of Project Loon, a Google[x] project to explore delivering balloon-powered internet to the 2 out of 3 people in the world who dont currently have access.

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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 ... a wave of eye-catching projects that helped to ...

Project Loon actually tests the balloons at McKinley Climatic Lab in Florida, which creates the sub-freezing environment the balloons will actually fly in. They have even recorded the conditions ...

Facebook's Aquila drone takes to the air However, Facebook's efforts paled in comparison to Project Loon, a similar idea using high-altitude balloons rather than drones. It is being worked on by X ...

Right now, each of Google's balloons cost tens of thousands of dollars to fly, but as Google pushes its research forward, that price will likely go down. Google believes Project Loon could be an ...