Alphabet/Google's Internet From Balloons
Loon Stratospheric Balloon Internet Source: Alphabet's Loon Loon Already Operational for Kenya Loon is one of Alphabet/Google's most fascinating projects. Loon delivers high speed, broadband internet from high altitude balloons in the stratosphere. Loon is operational and beaming internet services into Kenya. This is a very different approach to low cost, broadband internet systems like Elon Musk's Starlink which is satellite based.. Internet From the Stratosphere Not Space Loon's internet delivery service is coming in to customers from wireless internet balloons, developed by Alphabet, Google's parent company. And it is in direct competition with SpaceX's Starlink, the ambitious, growing mega-constellations of low-Earth orbit satellites, being launched by CEO Elon Musk to provide the world with inexpensive, high speed internet. Musk has launched nearly 800 small satellites, now in low Earth orbit, and ha