Project Loon/YouTube — -- Alphabet's Internet-beaming balloons, known as "Project Loon," will be put to the test next year when they're launched into the stratosphere above Indonesia.

Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped.

The fledgling internet balloon industry just marked an important achievement. Alphabet's Loon has recorded over 1 million hours of stratospheric flight for its balloons, covering about 24.9 ...

Google’s parent firm, Alphabet, is done exploring the idea of using a fleet of balloons to beam high-speed internet in remote parts of the world. The firm said on Thursday evening that it was ...

The Federal Communications Commission has given Alphabet's Moonshot Factory approval to deploy its Project Loon balloon-based communications system to provide cellular connectivity in hurricane ...

The Loon balloon project is part of X, the experimental division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Now in its fourth year, the engineers at Loon say their new machine learning techniques ...

Loon, the former Google X project and now independent Alphabet company ... According to Loon each of its balloons, from 20km above earth, can cover an area of about 80km in diameter and serve ...

Alphabet's Loon has officially begun operating its commercial internet service in Kenya . This is the first large-scale commercial offering that makes use of Loon's high-altitude balloons ...

Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its division that provides internet from floating balloons, according to a post on the blog of Alphabet’s X moonshot division. “The road to commercial viability ...