{"id":18927,"date":"2015-10-30T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T21:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/project-loon-is-set-to-circle-the-planet-with-internet-balloons-in-2016"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:23","slug":"project-loon-is-set-to-circle-the-planet-with-internet-balloons-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/project-loon-is-set-to-circle-the-planet-with-internet-balloons-in-2016","title":{"rendered":"Project Loon is set to circle the planet with Internet balloons in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/project-loon-is-set-to-circle-the-planet-with-internet-balloons-in-2016.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/google-s-internet-balloons-will-soon-connect-all-of-sri-lanka-with-wi-fi\">Project Loon<\/a> is a massively ambitious plan to provide Internet connectivity to areas of the planet that don\u2019t already enjoy good access to the web. How? Via a huge fleet of helium balloons that hang in the stratosphere 20 kilometres above the surface, assembling to form a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/loon\/\">high-tech communication network<\/a> that beams the web to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>And the undertaking is only getting more ambitious, with the company announcing this week that it plans to circle the planet with a ring of Project Loon balloons that will provide a perpetual data service for those living underneath its path.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like science fiction, but this isn\u2019t some faraway ethereal concept we\u2019re talking about. Google says it will do this next year, provided current tests work out as planned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/project-loon-is-set-to-circle-the-planet-with-internet-balloons-in-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Project Loon is a massively ambitious plan to provide Internet connectivity to areas of the planet that don\u2019t already enjoy good access to the web. How? Via a huge fleet of helium balloons that hang in the stratosphere 20 kilometres above the surface, assembling to form a high-tech communication network that beams the web [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69276,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927\/revisions\/69276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}