Project Loon

 

Project Loon is a R&D Project being developed by Google X with the mission of providing Internet Acess to Rural and Remote Areas

 It was named Project Loon, since Google itself found the very idea of providing internet access to the remaining 5 billion population unprecedented and "crazy."

The project uses high altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere  at an altitude of about 18 km (11 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up to 4G-LTE speeds

Users of the service connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building.

The signal travels through the balloon network from balloon to balloon, then to a ground-based station connected to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), then onto the global Internet