Project Loon wants to encircle the globe in 2016
Google’s Project Loon has big plans for 2016, including its first round-the-world coverage. Its vice president, Mike Cassidy, told the BBC that the team is hoping to launch 300-plus balloons next year to “make a continuous string around the world.” The idea is to make sure that there’s always at least one balloon covering a particular area — when one drifts away, another immediately takes its place. If the team successfully deploys its first continuous string, which will cover the Southern Hemisphere, it plans to start taking its first beta commercial customers. While this particular goal depends on whether things go well for the team in the near future, Project Loon’s partnership with Indonesian providers is already a done deal.
Source: Project Loon (Google+), BBC
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