Google will invest $1 billion in a fleet of satellites

This fleet, in low orbits, would provide Internet access service to remote areas, while offering other possibilities such as IP links to contribute news.

Google plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites. The project, whose details remain to be finalized, would start with 180 small satellites in orbit at lower altitudes than regular satellites and could then be expanded.

This fleet, in low orbits, would provide Internet access service to remote areas, while offering other possibilities such as IP links to contribute news, for example.

Depending on the network deployed, the cost of the operation would range between one billion and more than three million dollars.

Google has already carried out tests in the past for a project called Loon, in which the company tried distributing the Internet in remote areas using hot air balloons, which served as transmitters. Subsequently, the Internet giant bought Titan Aerospac, a drone (remote-controlled devices) manufacturer, last April.