Systems and Methods for Controlling Aerial Vehicles

Loon, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is developing systems for controlling aerial vehicles, specifically high-altitude balloons carrying electronics. The altitude of the aerial vehicle is adjusted based on data indicating its location, its altitude, its objective, and wind pattern.
Loon announced its partnership with Canadian telecommunications company Telesat in a deal that will see Loon’s custom software service for managing its LTE balloon fleet be put to use controlling Telesat’s new constellation of low Earth orbit satellites.