Alphabet's Loon internet balloons can now fly 600 kilometers apart

Alphabet subsidiary Loon has achieved a new milestone: Maintaining an internet connection between seven balloons across a span of nearly 1,000 kilometers. For context, a single balloon in 2014 was capable of beaming internet to an area 40 kilometers in diameter, and at one point achieving connections between two balloons 100 kilometers apart was noteworthy, […] The post Alphabet's Loon internet balloons can now fly 600 kilometers apart appeared first on VentureBeat.