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Google will have a perfect opportunity to carry out the test version for the balloon “Project Loon” at an unprecedented scale.

Sri Lankan government recently announced a plan to partner with Google to deploy Internet services across the country using the balloon in the project ” Project Loon ‘.

The ball in the project “Project Loon” Google

Basically, “Loon Project” is a project that Google deployed balloons like the balloon at an altitude of about 20km, internet broadcast work in remote places of the world.

The balloon was Google trial in late 2013. However, with the cooperation with the government of Sri Lanka, this is a perfect opportunity to carry out a test version for balloon large scale never before seen. Conditions in Sri Lanka Internet is relatively backward. With a population of about 22 million people, but Sri Lanka is only about 2.8 million people are connected to the Internet through mobile devices. The number of people using the service to connect via wired cable systems is only about 600,000.

Time and timetable of the project has been both the Sri Lankan government and Google through. Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka part declared that “In a few months, when the work is complete we can say: Sri Lanka was completely covered.”

The balloon of “Project Loon” The latest version called Nighthawk. This version was launched in collaboration with design firm Raven Aerostar Aerospace.

Nighthawk using LTE antenna. It can send data to the mobile phone using the 4G network, the transmission of information between the balloon together and with ground stations.

Google claims, the balloon will be maintained for 100 days in the sky Sri Lanka before they return to the ground.