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Brazil Considering Balloons to Extend Internet Service to Amazonia

Source: Hispanically Speaking News Brazil’s National Space Research Institute, known as INPE, said it is looking at the feasibility of using balloons to extend the Internet into isolated regions such as Amazonia.

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World View Balloon Aims to Give You an Outer-Space View for $75,000

Source: NBC News By: Alan Boyle, Science Editor NBC News A new venture headed by veteran space entrepreneurs plans to send tourists on a balloon up to an altitude of 19 miles, to give them the kind of spacey view that … Continue reading

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Google tests helium balloon Wi-Fi network

Source: Engineering and Technology Magazine By Tereza Pultarova Google has been running pilot tests of its Project Loon providing Internet connectivity via a fleet of helium balloons in New Zealand since June.

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The Next Big Thing for Exploring the Distant Universe: Balloons

Source: The Atlantic.com  By: Megan Garber A way to get 99 % of the way into space, at 1 % of the cost of a satellite.  

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