Alphabet’s Loon balloons developed clever strategies to pass 1M hours flying in Earth’s stratosphere

21:17 23.07.2019
Alphabet’s Loon subsidiary, which aims to blanket the Earth in high-speed broadband Internet connectivity, has passed the 1 million hour mark in terms of total time spent in Earth’s stratosphere across all its flights. The balloons occupy the upper-edge of Earth’s atmosphere, in an altitude band between 50,000 and 70,000 feet, riding wind currents and […]...
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