Telesat makes deals with Blue Origin and Loon for its internet satellite network Canada’s biggest satellite operator, Telesat, has signed agreements with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Alphabet’s Loon aerial… Read More
Freshly hatched Loon strikes deal to beam internet access from balloons over Kenya News Brief: A week after becoming an independent business under Alphabet’s wing, the venture formerly known as Google’s Project Loon… Read More
Leaving Google’s nest: Loon and Wing graduate from Alphabet’s X idea factory Two of Google’s best-known flights of fancy, Project Loon and Project Wing, are being hatched from their X incubator to… Read More
Inside the X ‘moonshot factory’: Here’s where Google’s ideas take flight (or fizzle) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Why does the Captain of Moonshots wear roller skates to work? That may sound like the start… Read More
Balloons rise up on the strato-frontier Drones, satellites and rocket planes are all well and good for high-flying missions, but sometimes the best craft for the job… Read More
Take look at the drone Facebook developed to connect the entire planet We see a lot of drone news around here, but Facebook’s video behind the engineering of its Internet.org drone is… Read More
NASA launches super balloon that will float twice as long as previous balloons In another first, NASA launched a new kind of research balloon, a super-pressure balloon, that will stay afloat nearly twice… Read More
