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Google's Loon project coming to an end
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Sorry to hear of their exit, it was interesting to follow their exploits. One of those unfortunate circumstances where you have to spend many millions of dollars just to find out if a cool idea is really feasible.
-- Chuck / KG5CA StratoCasters
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Christopher Rose
Hi, If the payload was as big as a tennis court, how big is the envelope(s)?
----------------------------------------- From: "Mark Conner N9XTN"To: GPSL@groups.io Cc: Sent: Thursday January 21 2021 7:58:33PM Subject: [GPSL] Google's Loon project coming to an end
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James Ewen VE6SRV
That would be people reporting not understanding the terms. The payload wouldn’t have been the size of a tennis court. Even the envelope at launch wouldn’t really be that size. Take a look at the “auto-launcher” photos. A tennis court sized payload with any amount of equipment on it would probably be fairly significant mass. That would require a lift envelope the size of a battleship. Imagine that landing on your house, or across a roadway. Definitely needs to have a controlled landing in an area with lots of room to land. James VE6SRV
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 10:18 AM Christopher Rose <kb8uih88@...> wrote:
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Carlton Corbitt
Wow, Loon has been a neat project to folllow and i wish i could have been apart of.
Dan Bowen are you in the group photo?
My guess is your the guy standing behind the guy with a bald head?
Carlton
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Would have been interesting to hear the debrief. I wonder if they decided a fixed-fixed wing alternative provided more flexibility in coverage than the "mostly" unguided floating vehicle.
https://medium.com/loon-for-all/hapsmobile-loon-first-in-the-world-to-deliver-lte-from-a-fixed-wing-stratospheric-aircraft-114bf4f041ad?source=collection_home---4------3----------------------- --- Chuck / KG5CA StratoCasters
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Christopher Rose
It did sound fantastic Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: James Ewen VE6SRV <ve6srv@...> Date: 1/23/21 12:28 PM (GMT-05:00) To: GPSL@groups.io Subject: Re: [GPSL] Google's Loon project coming to an end That would be people reporting not understanding the terms. The payload wouldn’t have been the size of a tennis court. Even the envelope at launch wouldn’t really be that size. Take a look at the “auto-launcher” photos. A tennis court sized payload with any amount of equipment on it would probably be fairly significant mass. That would require a lift envelope the size of a battleship. Imagine that landing on your house, or across a roadway. Definitely needs to have a controlled landing in an area with lots of room to land. James VE6SRV On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 10:18 AM Christopher Rose <kb8uih88@...> wrote:
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