Google's LTE-enabled balloons take 5 minutes to inflate, can last 100 days

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The search giant shared some new details on Project Loon, the company’s network of LTE-enabled balloons that deliver Internet access to connect people in rural and remote areas

The balloons, which travel through the stratosphere and can raise or lower into the wind, have travelled 1.86 million miles since the start of the project in June 2013. The company equates that to almost four trips to the moon and back

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Google has refined its balloon manufacturing process to increase the life of the balloons, an average of about 100 days — which is 10 times longer than they lasted a year ago. Read more...

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