top | item 33183929 (no title) Ensydr | 3 years ago Being in New Zealand I remember the google balloon project, what happened to that? discuss order hn newest codyogden|3 years ago Project Loon was killed last year. reportingsjr|3 years ago Loon was shut down, but some of the technology is being elsewhere. (not surprising, this is how a lot of r&d projects go)Some of the laser communication link tech is being used in project taara. jamesvnz|3 years ago My understanding is that it could be made to work, but Starlink came along and clearly solved the problem of delivering high speed internet to remote areas better. vl|3 years ago It flew away into stratosphere. Ensydr|3 years ago hahahaha
reportingsjr|3 years ago Loon was shut down, but some of the technology is being elsewhere. (not surprising, this is how a lot of r&d projects go)Some of the laser communication link tech is being used in project taara.
jamesvnz|3 years ago My understanding is that it could be made to work, but Starlink came along and clearly solved the problem of delivering high speed internet to remote areas better.
codyogden|3 years ago
reportingsjr|3 years ago
Some of the laser communication link tech is being used in project taara.
jamesvnz|3 years ago
vl|3 years ago
Ensydr|3 years ago