Re: Chinese balloon

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Message posted by Duke (Member since 08/27/2019) on February 03, 2023 at 14:23:16 PST:

That data is available from NOAA. It's what was used by the Loons.

"The balloons were maneuvered by adjusting their altitude in the stratosphere to float to a wind layer after identifying the wind layer with the desired speed and direction using wind data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Users of the service connected to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal travelled through the balloon network from balloon to balloon, then to a ground-based station connected to an Internet service provider (ISP), then into the global Internet."

Attached link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC#:~:text=Loon%20LLC%20was%20an%20Alphabet,to%201%20Mbit/s%20speeds

In Reply to: Re: Chinese balloon posted by casper_n on February 03, 2023 at 11:08:29 PST:

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