Project Loon

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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.[1]

Background

On the 15th December 2014, it was announced that the French Space Agency CNES had formed a partnership with Google on Project Loon.[2]

References

  1. Google Loon Retrieved 16th December 2014.
  2. Google partners with French space agency for Project Loon Techtimes, retrieved 17th December 2014.