HAPSMobile
Space
Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile team with Airbus, China Telecom and more on stratospheric cell networks
4:55 am PST • February 21, 2020
A new industry alliance led by Alphabet’s Loon high-altitude balloon technology company and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile stratospheric glider subsidiary aims to work together on standards and tech related to deploying network…
Space
Alphabet’s Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile turn solar-powered drones into flying cell towers
6:36 am PST • February 6, 2020
Alphabet-owned Loon, the company that had been focused on delivering internet communications to remote areas via stratospheric balloons, has completed development work on a new payload for partner HAPSMobile, a…
Startups
Internet connectivity projects unite as Alphabet spinout Loon grabs $125M from SoftBank’s HAPSMobile
10:35 pm PDT • April 24, 2019
Two futuristic projects are coming together to help increase global internet access after Loon, the Google spinout that uses a collection of floating balloons to bring connectivity to remote areas,…
