The Google project Loon gradually improving aircraft carrying telecommunications equipment for relaying wireless networks. As conceived by the Internet giant, the network automatically controlled balloons with transponders will help solve the problem of providing access to a global network.
French National Centre for Space Studies CNES, created in 1961, today announced a collaboration with Google in the framework of the Loon. The specialists of this center will help Google improve the balloons and algorithms to manage them. In turn, Google will collect interesting CENS specialists data, since the experiment will provide a fairly extensive statistics. French experts will work on the balloons Google next generation.
As the authors explain the press release on the site CENS, Google balloons fly at an altitude of 18-20 km and are powered by solar panels. Speed provided by this equipment is sufficient for video streaming. Google balls flew a total of more than 3 million. Km. Representatives of corporations recognize that for the four billion people access to the Internet simple solutions can not be, so to the problems should involve in various fields. By the way, CENS reports that the launch of a balloon
with a payload of 500 kg to a height of 40 km costing a hundred times cheaper than satellite launch with a similar load into orbit.
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