Here’s how Google gets a tennis court-sized Loon balloon into the air
Feb26
After more than two and a half years in development, Google’s Project Loon is properly getting off the ground (lol) and now the company is showing off exactly how the likely final design will get into the air. “As Project Loon looks to build a ring of connectivity around the world in 2016, we need to be able to smoothly and reliably set-up new launch locations in far flung places,” the company said on its Google+ page. That’s why it has custom-built a 16.7 meter, three-sided “autolaunch” crane – dubbed ‘Chicken Little’ – that fills, lifts and launches the tennis court-sized internet balloons…
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