The fledgling internet balloon industry just marked an important achievement. Alphabet’s Loon has recorded over 1 million hours of stratospheric flight for its balloons, covering about 24.9 million miles. The figures aren’t completely shocking when they’ve been pressed into service for hard-hit areas like Puerto Rico and Peru , but it’s still significant when the technology only graduated from project status one year earlier.
Source: Alphabet’s internet balloons have spent a million hours in the stratosphere