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'''Project Loon''' is a project at [[Google]] that aims to provide internet access; it focuses on developing countries, rural and remote areas and areas that have suffered natural disasters. It plans to use high-altitude balloons to create large-scale 3G wireless networks.<ref>[http://www.google.com/loon/ Google Loon] Retrieved 16th December 2014.</ref>

==Background==
On the 15th December 2014, it was announced that the French Space Agency [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNES CNES] had formed a partnership with Google on Project Loon.<ref>[http://www.techtimes.com/articles/22161/20141215/google-project-loon-teams-french-space-agency-develop-next-generation.htm Google partners with French space agency for Project Loon] Techtimes, retrieved 17th December 2014.</ref>

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