Alphabet’s Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile turn solar-powered drones into flying cell towers

17:36 06.02.2020
Alphabet-owned Loon, the company that had been focused on delivering internet communications to remote areas via stratospheric balloons, has completed development work on a new payload for partner HAPSMobile, a subsidiary of SoftBank that’s building high-altitude solar-powered uncrewed aircraft. The two companies jointly adapted the communications technology that enables Loon’s balloons to beam communications networks […]...
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