Furthermore, he stated that for 312 days, they used the Loon balloon ” primarily for connectivity” and they are “beginning to understand that this is just scratching the surface of the opportunity presented by the stratosphere.”
Moreover, he noted that his “Loon colleagues published a whitepaper discussing the massive opportunity in the stratosphere, which represents a multi-billion dollar market spanning telecommunications, high-resolution earth observation, and weather prediction and modeling.”
Candido and his colleagues are working hard to keep every Loon balloon flight loner over the stratosphere.
“Longer Loon flights let us reach and persist in places (like over the middle of the Pacific ocean) that are typically hard to remain for extended periods of time. That all adds up to being able to scale our cell towers in the sky to more people and places and continue toward our mission of connecting people everywhere,” according to him.
Loon is racing with both Amazon and SpaceX, which are also aiming to provide affordable internet to people in every corner of the planet. Both companies are developing low-orbit satellite networks.
