{"id":1438,"date":"2024-02-18T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T07:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:39:52","slug":"q-project-loon-sometimes-seen-in-the-news-is-related-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-project-loon-sometimes-seen-in-the-news-is-related-to","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0\u2018Project Loon\u2019, sometimes seen in the news, is related to"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>waste management technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>wireless communication technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>solar power production technology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>water conservation technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) wireless communication technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"project-loon\">Project Loon<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Project Loon is a pilot project&nbsp;<strong>developed by Google LLC<\/strong>. It is aimed at&nbsp;<strong>providing the internet by using balloons that would trace the earth<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Project Loon was developed with the aim of&nbsp;<strong>providing economic internet access across the world<\/strong>. It is a research and development (RnD) project that is developed by Google.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It comprises a network of balloons that would&nbsp;<strong>float above in the stratosphere higher than the airplanes and the weather<\/strong>. The Balloons are carried across the globe with the wind that is used to direct the direction of the balloons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People using this technology would be able to set up a connection with the balloons using antennas attached to their buildings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google: Loon Brand Video\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9xkujxxzaM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (b) wireless communication technology Project Loon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[44],"years":[57],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-science-and-tech","years-57"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":44,"label":"Science and Tech"}],"years":[{"value":57,"label":"2016"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Science and Tech","slug":"science-and-tech","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}