Are Loon balloons still flying?

After 9 years surfing the stratospheric winds, Loon’s journey is coming to an end. So we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Loon. In the coming months, we’ll begin winding down operations and it will no longer be an Other Bet within Alphabet.

Why did Project Loon shutdown?

Citing the inability to drive costs low enough to create a “long-term, sustainable business,” Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth announced the end of the project in a blog post late last week.

Can you see Project Loon balloons?

Under just the right conditions, the high altitude balloons can be visible through a pair of binoculars when sunlight hits them just right as they float at around 50,000 feet. For perspective, most commercial aircraft fly between 30,000 and 38,000 feet — about 5.9 to 7.2 miles.

Why is Google shutting down Loon?

How does Project Loon work?

Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to extend Internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide. Project Loon, in a nutshell, is balloon powered internet. It’s Google’s radical solution to the problem of lack of worldwide internet connection through a breakthrough technology.

What is Google’s Project Loon?

Definition – What does Project Loon mean? Project Loon is a Google project involving sending hot air balloons to the stratosphere in order to deliver Wi-Fi access to rural and underserved areas.

Why did Project Loon fail?

Another reason for the demise of the project can be attributed to the feasibility issues faced by the company. Alastair Westgarth, chief executive of Loon, said in a blog post that the communities in areas too difficult or remote to reach, or the areas where delivering service with existing technologies is just too expensive for everyday people.

How Loony is the Google Loon project?

The only thing loony about Google’s project Loon is the helium. Google’s project Loon may be our best chance at saving the planet. Free access to humanity’s collective knowledge will do more than anything to assist those in 3rd world countries to help themselves,, and to inform those of us in the 1st world how bad things really are.