Google’s Project Loon deliver wireless internet from the sky

Google is on a project to blanket the world in wireless Internet

The latest way to cover the world in wireless internet is by the way of super balloons.

The internet hot balloons are being developed by Google under the project name ‘Loon’, which carry internet signal antennas float in the stratosphere, at a height twice as high as air planes. They are carried around the earth by winds and can be steered by raising or lowering them to a particular altitude, with winds moving in the desired direction.

Customers may connect to Google’s balloon network using a special internet antenna attached to their building. The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, onto the internet and back to the earth.

A ‘Project Loon’ pilot project began on June 15 at the 40th parallel South, which is a circle of latitude, that is 40 degrees south of the earth’s equatorial plane, when 30 balloons launched from New Zealand’s South Island beamed internet signals to a small group of pilot testers.

via –  Silicon India