在一年内,谷歌旨在使高空气球在南半球持续环行,以实现向地面移动电话提供无线网络业务信号的任务。根据谷歌X实验室负责人阿斯特罗·泰勒(Astro Teller)在近日的麻省理工学院科技评论新兴技术峰会上的发言,为了进行“对月发射”研究项目,已经成立了专门的公司。泰勒称,正在进行此项气球项目(即潜鸟式工程),旨在通过实用性的方法以满足全球大部分贫困区域的数亿人能够连接无线网络。 Within a year, Google aims to keep the high-altitude balloons circling the southern hemisphere in order to deliver wireless network traffic signals to terrestrial mobile phones. According to a statement by Astro Teller, head of Google’s X lab, at a recent MIT Technology Emerging Technology Summit, a special the company. Taylor said the balloon project (aka submarine project) is under way to reach hundreds of millions of people in most poor regions of the world with access to wireless networks in practical ways.