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Monday 17 June 2013

Google Project Uses Balloons to Expand Internet Access

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The large balloons will be used to provide internet access to remote or rural areas. (Jon Shenk/AP Photo)
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Visitors stand next to a high-altitude Wi-Fi internet hub, a Google Project Loon balloon, on display at the Airforce Museum in Christchurch

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Google's Tammo Spalink holds the communications unit (R) with the altitude controller (C) and Avionics bay (L) during a public display of Google's new high-altitude Wi-Fi internet hub at the Airforce Museum in Christchurch

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Google's Anton Staff (c) stands in front of the balloon's solar panel as he speaks about Project Loon

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The solar panels that will power the balloons are seen before take-off in Tekapo, New Zealand

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A Project Loon high-altitude balloon is inflated before its launch in Tekapo, New Zealand

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A test balloon floats over New Zealand

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Tania Gilchrist, who is participating in Google's testing programme, stands next to the red Google internet receiver attached to her home in Christchurch, New Zealand