Balloon Google distributed the Internet 223 days without stopping
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At the moment there are several companies that are trying to provide Internet for the whole planet Earth, until its most remote corners. For example, the company SpaceX wants to give the Internet using , as the search giant does have launched the Loon project with balloons. This small idea has turned into a separate, the same company, and recently the aircraft has set a record for continuous distribution of the Internet — he was in the air for more than 7 months.
The Record was a balloon under the code name P-496. He took off from the island of Puerto Rico 18 November 2018, and landed in Peru on 2 July 2019. In total, he played in the air 223 days, which is an absolute record — the previous record belonged to the same balloon, which stayed in the air for 198 days.
balloon Loon has set a record flight duration
During its flight, the balloon P-496 managed to fly the whole circumference of the Earth, and spend 140 days off the coast of South Africa. Distribution besides the Internet, he was watching his position relative to the earth — apparently, the employees want to identify outliers, and correct all the errors in future versions of the balloons. Ultimately, these corrections will increase the flight duration of all the phones and distributed them on the Internet will be the most stable.
the Trajectory of the balloon P-496
One balloon covers the Internet region with an area of 40 thousand square kilometers. It is noteworthy that the company Loon is not an ISP, but simply offers service providers a tool to expand their network worldwide. Balloons for Internet distribution is particularly useful during natural disasters, when entire regions are left without means of communication. The use of project Loon was especially significant after the earthquake in Peru, when they provided the connection within 48 hours.
Landing in Peru
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