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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nipun.max" data-source="post: 16732062" data-attributes="member: 309724">Google plans to spend more than $1bn on a fleet of 180 satellites to beam internet access to unconnected parts of the globe.The  project will use small, but high capacity low-Earth orbiting satellites  that sit lower in the sky than traditional satellites, a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-invests-in-satellites-to-spread-internet-access-1401666287" target="_blank">report by the Wall Street Journal indicates</a>.The satellite venture will be an extension of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jun/15/project-loon-google-balloon-internet" target="_blank">Google’s Project Loon</a>,  which uses high-altitude balloons to carry internet signal across areas  of New Zealand with the intention of establishing an uninterrupted  internet signal around the 40th parallel of the Earth's southern  hemisphere.Reporting directly to Larry PageSatellite-communications  expert Greg Wyler, who founded specialist startup O3b Networks, is  reportedly leading the new project for Google reporting directly to  chief executive Larry Page with a team of about 20 people.Google <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/google-buys-drone-maker-titan-aerospace" target="_blank">recently purchased drone-maker Titan Aerospace</a>  to deliver solar-powered high-altitude drones that can stay airborne  for five years at a time. The drones, called “atmospheric satellites”,  could replace the balloons in Project Loon.source - <a href="http://www.theguardian.com" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com</a></blockquote>

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