Google, which is planning to pillar the web to remote areas of the world by means of the balloon, went before the UN's aeronautics organization to ask member states let it utilize their airspace. The organization's X Lab, which was made to seek huge vision ventures, said it would like to set up a system of helium balloons coasting in the stratosphere that will discharge an effective 4G sign to rural and hard-to-access territories.
The Initiative - propelled in 2013 and named "Project Loon" - saw its first balloon take off from South America in February just to crash at a tea plantation in Sri Lanka, where it was found by villagers. Alphabet, the guardian organization of Google, had joined hands with Sri Lanka to convey the web to remote regions there. The nation's Information and Communication Technology Agency, which facilitated the tests with Google, depicted the landing as controlled and scheduled.
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Loon has "significantly improved the balloon design, manufacture, and launch procedure," X Lab told the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Wednesday, according to a document seen by AFP. "The balloons are now robust, remaining aloft well beyond the targeted 100 days, and are launched through a custom developed auto-launcher, allowing rapid multiple launches," X Lab told the organization's executive committee.
After compiling publicly available wind data with its own flight data, Project Loon could display the stratosphere's wind flow, permitting its balloons to "change altitude to 'catch' the winds moving at speed and direction important to a given service area," the report said. Alphabet asked for the help of ICAO member states as they met for its 39th triennial get together, requesting them specifically to "establish bilateral or multilateral letters of agreement with adjacent states and Project Loon to allow Loon balloons to safely transit flight information region boundaries."
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"Safety and coordination with the international civil aviation community are very important to Project Loon," an X Lab spokeswoman told AFP. Loon is currently working to finalize a safety plan and set up its operations center. In July, leading social network Facebook launched a similar attempt to bring internet access to remote areas via solar drones.
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