{"id":161688,"date":"2021-01-22T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/alphabet-scraps-moonshot-loon-internet-balloon-project\/"},"modified":"2021-01-22T17:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:59:26","slug":"alphabet-scraps-moonshot-loon-internet-balloon-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alphabet-scraps-moonshot-loon-internet-balloon-project\/","title":{"rendered":"#Alphabet scraps ‘moonshot’ Loon internet balloon project"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Alphabet scraps ‘moonshot’ Loon internet balloon project<\/strong>”
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Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project \u2014 the latest of the tech giant\u2019s \u201cmoonshot\u201d programs to get scrapp<\/a>ed.<\/p>\n

Loon, which used high-flying balloons to bring internet to remote areas of the globe, will be winding down its operations after it said the technology<\/a> proved too expensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we\u2019ve found a number of willing partners along the way, we haven\u2019t found a way to get the costs low enough to build a long-term, sustainable business Alastair Westgarth wrote in a blog post<\/a>. \u201cDeveloping radical new technology is inherently risky, but that doesn\u2019t make breaking this news<\/a> any easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loon was launched in 2013 as part of Alphabet\u2019s moonshot program, also known as X, which in recent years has killed off other outlandish projects including flying cargo ships and vertical farming.<\/p>\n

Loon got spun off into its own company in 2018. It launched its first official commercial project in Kenya over the summer, with 35 balloons covering remote areas of the country. <\/p>\n

The team\u2019s balloons were also brought to Puerto Rico after 2017\u2019s devastating Hurricane Maria and to Peru in 2019 following an earthquake. <\/p>\n

At its peak, a Loon device was capable of delivering mobile internet coverage over an 11,000 square kilometer area, Westgarth wrote.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Alphabet scraps ‘moonshot’ Loon internet balloon project” Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project \u2014 the latest of the tech giant\u2019s \u201cmoonshot\u201d programs to get scrapped. Loon, which used high-flying balloons to bring internet to remote areas of the globe, will be winding down its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Loon.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[90358,71767,26293],"class_list":["post-161688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-22-21","tag-alphabet-inc","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}