SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
PROJECT LOON
>Google has envisaged the Project Loon. It is a network of balloons travelling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas. It will help fill coverage gaps and also bring people back online after disasters.
>The balloon is also considerably used to gather weather information such as atmospheric pressure,
temperature, humidity and wind speed.
Details of Project Loon: balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather.
> They are carried around the Earth by winds and they can be steered by rising or descending to an altitude with winds moving in the desired direction.
> People connect to the balloon network using a special internet antenna attached to their building.
>The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, then to the global internet back on the Earth.
Breach of internet privacy
Not a replacement of satellite communication
International Politics
>Google has envisaged the Project Loon. It is a network of balloons travelling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas. It will help fill coverage gaps and also bring people back online after disasters.
>The balloon is also considerably used to gather weather information such as atmospheric pressure,
temperature, humidity and wind speed.
Details of Project Loon: balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather.
> They are carried around the Earth by winds and they can be steered by rising or descending to an altitude with winds moving in the desired direction.
> People connect to the balloon network using a special internet antenna attached to their building.
>The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, then to the global internet back on the Earth.
Advantages-Lower cost
Availability of information
Education
Health and Medicine
Connectivity
Disadvantages-Chances of Hardware FailureBreach of internet privacy
Not a replacement of satellite communication
International Politics
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