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Google seeking airspace access for internet balloons

An artist's rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2. Google's X Lab said it hopes to establish a network of helium balloons floating in the stratosphere that will emit a powerful 4G signal to rural and difficult-to-access areas. PHOTO | AFP / NASA/ JP / CALTECH

Google, which is hoping to beam the internet to remote areas of the world via balloon, went before the UN's aviation agency to ask member states to let it ply their airspace.

The company's X Lab, which was created to pursue big-vision projects, said it hopes to establish a network of helium balloons floating in the stratosphere that will emit a powerful 4G signal to rural and difficult-to-access areas.

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