Google sent an internet balloon around the world in 22 days When Google announced Project Loon, its bid to provide free global internet access using a network of high altitude balloons, we were ...

A little over four years ago, Google started talking about what it called Project Loon--an ambitious plan to deploy balloons roughly 11 miles up to create an aerial wireless network. The balloons are ...

Mobile data might seem near-ubiquitous, but the world still has major dead zones and huge expanses with poor coverage. Anyone that has fervently and consistently checked the availability of Verizon's ...

Google says its Project Loon is close to being able to produce and launch thousands of balloons to provide Internet access from the sky. Such a number would be required to provide reliable Internet ...

It’s been two years since Google first disclosed Project Loon, and while the company continues to keep most details of the project secret, the technology and challenges behind it are slowly coming ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The Web search company's Project Loon venture expects to ...