On the 15th December 2014, it was announced that the French Space Agency, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNES CNES], had formed a partnership with Google on Project Loon.<ref name="techtimes"></ref> | On the 15th December 2014, it was announced that the French Space Agency, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNES CNES], had formed a partnership with Google on Project Loon.<ref name="techtimes"></ref> |