Rico, having been launched from Nevada under an agreement with the Puerto
Rico Governor, Ricardo Rosselló. This enabled Loon to provide LTE communications directly to people’s handsets. That same month it was reported that the project had spun off into its own company Loon LLC, but it remained a project within
Google X until July 2018.
On July 11, 2018, Google’s R&D facility announced that Loon was “graduating” into an Alphabet subsidiary in its own right, rather than being merely a project of Google X.
On July 23, 2019, Loon said they had clocked one million hours of stratospheric flight. In an article written by Chief Technology Officer Sal Candido via
Medium, he explained some of the navigational techniques which the autonomous
balloons deployed, including tacking, loitering, and figure-8’s to deliver internet
service in the most efficient way possible.
In May 2020, Loon signed an agreement with AT&T. This partnership will better position Loon to address any potential need for disaster response cellular
Fig. 5.1 Loon balloons over Puerto Rico. Photo courtesy of Flightradar24
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Rico Governor, Ricardo Rosselló. This enabled Loon to provide LTE communications directly to people’s handsets. That same month it was reported that the project had spun off into its own company Loon LLC, but it remained a project within
Google X until July 2018.
On July 11, 2018, Google’s R&D facility announced that Loon was “graduating” into an Alphabet subsidiary in its own right, rather than being merely a project of Google X.
On July 23, 2019, Loon said they had clocked one million hours of stratospheric flight. In an article written by Chief Technology Officer Sal Candido via
Medium, he explained some of the navigational techniques which the autonomous
balloons deployed, including tacking, loitering, and figure-8’s to deliver internet
service in the most efficient way possible.
In May 2020, Loon signed an agreement with AT&T. This partnership will better position Loon to address any potential need for disaster response cellular
Fig. 5.1 Loon balloons over Puerto Rico. Photo courtesy of Flightradar24
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