SDN in the stratosphere: Loon's aerospace mesh network

Re:SDN in the stratosphere: Loon's aerospace mesh network by dgnemo on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:00PM (#32653773)

Mostly payload and Airborne time. Idk what is the current status of Zephyr (google search suggests 26 days?) but Loon balloons were consistently reaching 300 days of airborne time.

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Re:SDN in the stratosphere: Loon's aerospace mesh network by philipkglass on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:19PM (#32653954)

Zephyr's latest flight had 64 days airborne:

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/zephyr-8-mission-ends-abruptly...

Unfortunately, it ended with a crash.

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Re:SDN in the stratosphere: Loon's aerospace mesh network by tjmc on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:06PM (#32657918)

Thanks for the link. Pretty impressive mission despite the unfortunate ending! Edit: Did it actually crash? The article says it was “brought down” but that could have still been a glide and regular landing if it lost power.

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