Why Google’s Internet-Beaming Balloons Ran Out of Air

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced in January that it would shut down Loon, a project that used helium balloons to beam internet access to remote areas from the stratosphere. Founded in 2011, Loon was one of the most hyped endeavors of X, Alphabet’s incubator for lofty “moonshot” technologies.
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