He is co-founder and first project leader of Project Loon, a Google[x] project to explore delivering balloon-powered internet to the 2 out of 3 people in the world who dont currently have access.

Piper and other scientists working on The Loon Project started monitoring loon ... using satellite images. They compared the satellite data from measurements taken directly from the lake to ...

Project Loon is perhaps the most famous of these (although ... the downlink on the high altitude balloon is fast enough to send high-resolution images in near-real-time. This is thanks to a ...

A few months ago, I made my first pilgrimage to St. Paul’s newest landmark, the Loon.