Canada’s biggest satellite operator, Telesat, has signed agreements with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Alphabet’s Loon aerial telecommunications venture to support its future global broadband satellite constellation.… Read More
News Brief: A week after becoming an independent business under Alphabet’s wing, the venture formerly known as Google’s Project Loon has struck its first commercial deal to provide balloon-powered 4G/LTE… Read More
Two of Google’s best-known flights of fancy, Project Loon and Project Wing, are being hatched from their X incubator to become independent businesses under the wing of Alphabet, Google’s holding… Read More
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Why does the Captain of Moonshots wear roller skates to work? That may sound like the start of a joke, but Astro Teller provides a mostly serious… Read More
Drones, satellites and rocket planes are all well and good for high-flying missions, but sometimes the best craft for the job is a balloon. Google’s Project Loon, for example, is enlisting… Read More
We see a lot of drone news around here, but Facebook’s video behind the engineering of its Internet.org drone is impressive stuff. Facebook released this video giving an inside look into the… Read More
In another first, NASA launched a new kind of research balloon, a super-pressure balloon, that will stay afloat nearly twice as long as existing balloons. Scientific American is calling it… Read More