Expanding Internet connectivity with stratospheric balloons
X Loon – The Moonshot Factory
“A cell tower’s coverage area is limited by the height of its antennas. By lifting these antennas up into the stratosphere, we can deliver connectivity over a much larger area.”
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“Project Loon is a radical approach to expanding Internet connectivity. Instead of trying to extend the Internet from the ground, Loon takes to the sky via a network of balloons, traveling along the edge of space, to expand Internet connectivity to rural areas, fill coverage gaps, and improve network resilience in the event of a disaster.”
Editor’s note:
Wireless systems are financed and coordinated through overlapping GeoEngineering technologies:
Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 / H.R. 353:
” TITLE IV—FEDERAL WEATHER COORDINATION
H. R. 353—2
(3) Research and development, and transfer of knowledge, technologies, and applications to the National Weather Service and other appropriate agencies and entities, including the United States weather industry and academic partners, related to—
(A) advanced radar, radar networking technologies, and other ground-based technologies, including those emphasizing rapid, fine-scale sensing of the boundary layer and lower troposphere, and the use of innovative, dual-polarization, phased-array technologies;
(G) additional sources of weather data and information, including commercial observing systems.
(4) A technology transfer initiative, carried out jointly and
in coordination with the Director of the National Weather Service, and in cooperation with the United States weather industry and academic partners, to ensure continuous development and transition of the latest scientific and technological advances into operations of the National Weather Service and to establish a process to sunset outdated and expensive operational methods and tools to enable cost-effective transfer of new methods and tools into operations.”