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Spreading the web
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Spreading the web

NZ has reached for the sky, backing Google's extraordinary plan to encircle the Earth with helium-filled balloons beaming internet access to billions. Google's secretive research team Google X launched Project Loon yesterday in Christchurch.

Project Loon launches
New Zealand

Project Loon launches

Developed in the secretive Google[x] lab, today Google launched a world-first in Christchurch: Sending internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons.