Project Loon details from the Christchurch event today
Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/IrZFq I went to the Project Loon event today (Sunday June 16) at the Air Force Museum in Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand. Here's what I learned. (Some of this may be misunderstood or misremembered, so don't take it as absolute truth, and this is all early prototype stuff anyway.) It was quite a big museum-style exhibit with lots of people (it had been on the news), and several members of the team were there answering questions. Currently there are four balloons up. Several have recently been successfully been brought down and recovered from the ocean (land landings are easier to recover but there is no nearby land east of here). The main reasons for testing here are that the stratospheric winds are "boring" (basically all west-east) and this latitude has few countries to coordinate with (they're working with Chil
Why it failed
Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/IrZFq I went to the Project Loon event today (Sunday June 16) at the Air Force Museum in Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand. Here's what I learned. (Some of this may be misunderstood or misremembered, so don't take it as a
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- mkl
- Ended
- 2013
- Source
- hackernews