60+ only? Maybe it is this what you are remembering: 437 pages https://storage.googleapis.com/x-prod.appspot.com/files/The%20Loon%20Library.pdf
Do you remember Solar Impulse 2 travel around the world? It had to stop and land every five days or so. This is the evolution: Skydweller https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9865021/US-Navy-developing-pilotlesss-solar-powered-plane-fly-90-days-straight.html The total footprint of a satellite coverage consists of multiple spot beams with typical diameters ranging from 200-1000 km in GEO deployments, 100-500 km in LEO deployments and 4 – 200 Km for HAPS deployment. Regards, David > Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2023 12:38:38 -0700 > From: Dave Taht <[email protected]> > To: Hesham ElBakoury <[email protected]> > Cc: Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Dave Taht via Starlink > <[email protected]>, George Michaelson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Starlink] apnic piece on starlink > Message-ID: > <caa93jw6se4qzxm+9thb1bx+82qukerqze7wk507w2a1grde...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 12:07 PM Hesham ElBakoury via Starlink > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Google Spinoff Aalyira salvaged Project Loon technology for US military. >> >> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/google-spinoff-aalyria-salvages-project-loon-technology-for-the-us-military/amp >> >> Hesham > > I did not know that. Loon did one of the greatest post-mortems of any > project I had ever read, 60+ pages long, and I cannot find it now. > > > (I love having you all on this list!) >> >> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 11:37 AM Michael Richardson via Starlink >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> David Lang via Starlink <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Google shuttered project Loon (balloons to do this rather than >>> UAVs) in >>> > the last year or two >>> >>> I heard that too, but also that some external entity then put up some >>> money >>> and partnered to start it up again. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
