Project Loon/YouTube — -- Alphabet's Internet-beaming balloons, known as "Project Loon," will be put to the test next year when they're launched into the stratosphere above Indonesia.

However, Loon balloons need a backhaul connection from ... was spun out as the independent company Loon in July alongside Alphabet's drone business, Wing.

The Federal Communications Commission has given Alphabet's Moonshot Factory approval to deploy its Project Loon balloon-based communications system to provide cellular connectivity in hurricane ...

Astro Teller, who heads X and was also the chair of the Loon board, recommended that Alphabet no longer fund it, effectively letting the air out of the division’s balloon. “No one wanted to ...

Alphabet, says it's reached a new milestone in its ambitious plan to beam the internet to remote populations. The project, called Loon, would send giant, high-flying balloons into the stratosphere ...

Previously, the record was 100 kilometers across two balloons, according to a Medium post from Loon. Mere months after shedding its "project" moniker, Google's internet-by-balloon moonshot, Loon ...

As Alphabet's experimental X division chief and ... the attempts to build a network of self-navigating, internet-beaming balloons. "And in the process they've leapt much closer to a day when ...

Google parent Alphabet Inc. shut down Loon, an audacious project to beam internet service from high-altitude balloons, after the unit failed to develop a viable business model. “While we’ve ...

Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped.

Last summer, a small company called Space Data sued Alphabet’s ‘moonshot’ X division. At issue was its effort to deliver internet access to remote areas by balloon, known as Project Loon.

the Federal Communications Commission on Friday night granted an experimental license for Alphabet Inc.’s Project Loon to create a network of balloons that could provide connectivity.