谷歌的LOON项目2015年度“金气球奖”获奖名单

 

本文翻译自projectloon的Google+账号发表的文章。伙计们,现在是年度颁奖时间,红毯已铺好,...



本文翻译自project loon 的Google+账号发表的文章。

伙计们,现在是年度颁奖时间,红毯已铺好,鸡尾酒已到位,晚礼服已从干洗店取出,一切准备就绪,马上带来我们的第二届年度“金气球奖”!

今年的奖项关注的焦点是那些幕后团队取得的进步,他们在气球发放的工作上取得了突破进展,为2016年推出全球互联网环连接做出了突出贡献。我们在2015年把精力都放在测试中,只求让气球发放得更快,续航时间更长,覆盖更大的范围。那么闲话少说,下面公布2015年的金气球奖获得者:

#1 快速发放器(The Speed Racer):

如果按照小丑在生日派对上对气球充气的速度,要把我们的loon气球充气并释放到平流层需要128小时(假设小丑不会中途放弃的话),要是那样的话所有的蛋糕早被抢光了。感谢上帝,我们设计了巨大的自动发放装置,可以使LOON气球快速,安全,连续地发放至平流层。今年团队创造了在29分钟内完成充气,发放,并进入平流层的记录。

#2 环球旅行者(The Globetrotter):

自从项目启动以来,LOON项目的气球已经旅行超过1700万公里,2015年飞行距离最长的一个气球在一次不间断飞行中穿越了113000公里,。自从5月发放以来,环球旅行者开始了史诗般的旅行,,漂流过17个不同国家的平流层上空,最后在智利回收区获得了当之无愧的退休待遇。



#3 动感双雄(The Dynamic Duo)

气球之间的通信可以让LOON项目通过多个气球之间的信号传递连接偏远地区的用户,即使这些用户远在千里之外。但是,这绝非易事:气球之间传输数据需要的精度相当于从20公里的高空摇曳的风中指向地面的一个苏打水瓶。 这个奖项确认了用来验证球与球之间通信的两个特殊气球试验的成果。自2015年6月同时发放之后,这对可爱的气球保持着超过100km的距离,而数据通信却从未中断。这次超长距离通信测试结果超出了我们在平流层球与球之间通信连接的理论值。



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It’s that time of year again folks! The red-carpet is out and the tuxedos and cocktail dresses are back from the dry-cleaners just in time for the glitz and glamour of our second annual Golden Balloon Awards.

This year’s awards shine the spotlight on some of the behind-the-scenes progress the team has made toward launching a ring of connectivity around the globe in 2016. We’ve been pushing the limits in testing this year, getting balloons up in the air faster, traveling further, and providing connections over longer and longer distances. So without further ado, we give you the best of the best from 2015...

#1 The Speed Racer - It would take the average clown at a birthday party 128 hours to inflate one of our tennis court sized Loon balloons and release it into the stratosphere (assuming the clown doesn’t pass out first), and by that point all the cake would be gone! Thankfully, we use our gigantic auto-launcher, custom designed to get Project Loon balloons from the box to the stratosphere quickly, safely and consistently. This year the team racked up a launch record of just 29 minutes to fill, lift and launch a Loon balloon into the stratosphere.

#2 The Globetrotter - Project Loon balloons have now travelled over 17 million kilometers since the project began, and this globetrotting balloon covered 113,000 km of them in just one flight, our longest distance traveller of 2015. Launched in May, the Globetrotter embarked on a journey of epic proportions, drifting in the stratosphere above 17 different countries before being brought to land in our Chilean recovery zone for a well-deserved retirement.

#3 The Dynamic Duo - Balloon-to-balloon communication allows Project Loon to connect even the most remote areas by bouncing signal across multiple balloons in the sky and back down to users many, many kilometers away. But, this is no easy task - transmitting data between balloons requires an accuracy equivalent to pointing a signal at a can of soda - 20 km up in the air and swaying in the wind! This award recognizes the tag-team effort of two very special balloons in demonstrating balloon-to-balloon connectivity. Launched in June as a simultaneous launch, this adorable couple were far from inseparable, at one point drifting over 100 km apart while data was continuously transmitted between them, the longest distance over which we have demonstrated balloon-to-balloon connectivity in the stratosphere.

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