{"id":100,"date":"2020-08-07T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2020-08-07T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T15:54:31","slug":"balloon-bedazzled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/2020\/08\/07\/balloon-bedazzled\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Bedazzled!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.36.12-AM-1024x665.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.36.12-AM-1024x665.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.36.12-AM-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.36.12-AM-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.36.12-AM.png 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Wait&#8230;that thing is 10miles up and barely moving?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a balloon floating around in the Central Valley! Not your typical balloon&#8230;it&#8217;s a Project Loon communications balloon, flying at 56,000&#8242; over Merced. Project Loon is a remote communications project that uses high-altitude balloons to carry cellular service up to the stratosphere in order to provide communications to areas that don&#8217;t have service, or during emergencies where terrestrial comms are down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed it this morning on ForeFlight (pilot app for iPad) as an &#8220;aircraft&#8221; that was not moving but at 10 miles up in the air. Thought it was a bug until I looked up it&#8217;s callsign (it has ADS-B onboard so the public can track it too). Pretty frickin&#8217; awesome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more information about Project Loon and it&#8217;s mission and balloons <a href=\"https:\/\/loon.com\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.53.09-AM-1024x534.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.53.09-AM-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.53.09-AM-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.53.09-AM-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-07-at-8.53.09-AM.png 1316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A Project Loon balloon that stayed aloft for 7 months.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a balloon floating around in the Central Valley! Not your typical balloon&#8230;it&#8217;s a Project Loon communications balloon, flying at 56,000&#8242; over Merced. Project Loon is a remote communications project that uses high-altitude balloons to carry cellular service up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/2020\/08\/07\/balloon-bedazzled\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aviate.org\/mikeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}