Project Loon from Google X is asking for...
Project Loon from Google X is asking for people in California’s Central Valley who are willing to have a Loon Internet antenna installed on their homes or small business buildings to test the strength of the Loon Internet connection, said…
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Project Loon on its Google Plus page Tuesday (http://bit.ly/10m1UOK). Project Loon is an experimental technology for balloon-powered Internet access, said Google X. Ground stations connect to the local Internet infrastructure and beam signals to the balloons, which are able to communicate with each other and form a mesh network in the sky, said the company. Google X started pilot-testing the project in June in New Zealand and is testing iterations on various aspects of the technology, a Google spokeswoman told us. Google X decided to test the balloons in the Central Valley next because it’s away from dense populations and airports and the weather conditions are favorable, she said. Project Loon is looking into radio performance, parachute deployment, the solar array and the super pressure envelope, she said.