The company used high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere at an altitude of 18 km (11 mi) to 25 km (16 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up to 1 Mbit/s speeds. Point a Loon. Project Loon is a network of stratospheric balloons designed to bring Internet connectivity to rural and remote communities worldwide. A larger fleet of Loon balloons is heading to Kenya after successful launches from Loon’s launch site in Puerto Rico, this week. It appears to use existing mobile phone technology, so does not have the extra Starlink technology and antenna tracking problem. The idea of Loon, first known as Project Loon, was on Google’s radar in 2011, and was first made public in 2013 through a feature in Wired. balloon is equipped with a GPS for tracking its location. Project Loon has complex algorithms to determine where its balloons need to go, then moves each one into a layer of wind blowing in the right direction. LoonBalloon.png 1017×821 52.8 KB. We highly believe that project Loon implementation can be greatly improved by using directional LTE atennas so we developed a Loon tracker and antenna tracker, with this you can get a DIY antenna tracker following the nearest balloon to your location, further improvemnts comming! SweetPea11 October 11, 2018, 4:26am #1. When a balloon is ready to be taken out of service, the lift gas keeping the balloon aloft is released and the parachute automatically deploys to control the landing. Keep Your Eye on the HBAL—Tracking Project Loon Balloons Posted on: 2016-04-09 / Categories: Special Aircraft Tracking Each day, we receive inquiries on social media and through our support channels asking about balloons, specifically—“What are those balloon icons wandering around the map at 65,000… How Loon moves [1]. Google’s Project Loon high altitude balloons spotted over Virginia and Carolinas Brent Watts 7/7/2020 Fire breaks out in Texas hotel as sprinkler system fails due to frozen pipes These balloons will join the eight balloons that are already active and part of a network integration exercise in Kenyan airspace. [1][2] Figure 3. Loon LLC was an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary working on providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. We just tracked a Project Loon balloon in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Loon balloons are also unique in that they are steerable and entirely solar powered. Winds in the stratosphere are stratified, and each layer of wind varies in speed and direction. We just tracked a Project Loon balloon in the middle of the Indian Ocean. ... Loon balloon tracking. In fact, Project Loon runs simulations of balloons that fly more kilometers every night than its real balloons have cumulatively flown since the project’s first flight test in 2013. 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