Project Loon has provided mobile data point to more than 100,000 citizenry in Puerto Rico , fit in to Google parent party Alphabet , which operates the enterprise .
The projection , which begin as a Google X Lab outgrowth , provides canonical cyberspace to crisis zones and out - of - electronic internet areas using weather balloon . In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria devastation , Project Loon procured an emergency permission from the FCCto send out its balloons to Puerto Rica on the US Virgin Islands .
“ In times of crisis , being able to intercommunicate with loved one , emergency services and critical info is key , ” Project Loon project run Alastair Westgarth , sound out in a statement shared with Gizmodo , thanking AT&T and T - Mobile , which the labor get together with .
Project Loon also released a video of Pedro Emmanuelli , a “ launching specialist ” from Puerto Rico , excuse how the operation exhaust balloons from a launch site in Winnemucca , Nevada , that cease up hovering above Puerto Rico .
In aMedium web log postlast month , Westgarth admitted , “ Project Loon is still an data-based technology and we ’re not quite sure how well it will work , but we go for it helps get citizenry the info and communicating they take to get through this unthinkably unmanageable fourth dimension . ”
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