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Google to launch hundreds of internet-enabled balloons in 2016

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Google’s Project Loon never seizes to impress. Though the initiative started testing about two years ago, the US internet giant’s moonshot of sending internet-beaming balloons into our stratospheres have just gone up a notch.
According to the BBC, the internet giant is planning to launch a string of 300 balloons, enough to create continuous on-the-ground coverage of a section of the world’s Southern Hemisphere.
Each balloon will cover around 40km in diameter, with speeds of up to 10 megabits a second. The longest a balloon has remained afloat has been 744 days.
“We hope next year to build our first continuous ring around [...]

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