Alphabet's Internet beaming balloons, known as "Project Loon," will be put to the test next year when they launch into the stratosphere above Indonesia.

The fledgling internet balloon industry just marked an important achievement. Alphabet's Loon has recorded over 1 million hours of stratospheric flight for its balloons, covering about 24.9 ...

The Alphabet division that's building a balloon-powered Internet service has obtained an experimental license "to help provide emergency cellular service in Puerto Rico," the Federal ...

When a magnitude 8.0 earthquake hit Peru Sunday, the Alphabet spinoff Loon was quick to respond. Within 48 hours, Loon delivered its internet-relaying balloons and began providing LTE coverage to ...

Alphabet's Loon subsidiary, which aims to blanket the Earth in high-speed broadband internet connectivity, ... The balloons occupy the upper-edge of Earth’s atmosphere, ...

When one balloon moved out of range, another would move in behind it. ... How Alphabet’s Project Loon balloons learned to loiter. Frederic Lardinois. 12:08 PM PST · February 16, 2017.

Thirty Loon balloons will float 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) above the earth in the stratosphere, relaying communications between Alphabet’s own ground stations connected to the surviving wireless ...

Alphabet Pops Loon’s Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure. Plus: The moonshot’s launch, health care for the maskless, and a new era’s inaugural meme.

Alphabet began offering the world’s first commercial high-speed internet using balloons to villagers in remote regions of Kenya’s Rift Valley on Wednesday.

Loon, the former Google X project and now independent Alphabet company, has developed an antenna system that could create a far greater ground coverage than previously possible. According to Loon ...

Could Alphabet’s big internet project finally catch wind? In the next few weeks, the company’s internet via balloon skunkworks Loon will come to Kenya for a commercial test in partnership with ...