Google's High altitude balloon assigned to the Kenyan operation of Project Loon crashed down in Buta near kisangani

As i indicated last evening!According to our source,it is yesterday afternoon that a Project Loon Google machine fell on ground in Congolese territory.

"It was launched on April 23, 2020 from Puerto Rico and remained in flight for 123 days, traveling 129,200 kilometers before landing yesterday near Buta, in the DRC", tweeted StratoCat, a company dedicated to documenting aerospace activity, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
According to the photo,
"The images show the landing payload of HBAL166, a high altitude balloon assigned to the Kenyan operation of Project Loon."
You can see it here
The reason for this crash is not yet known up to now but we will try to get updates on this as time goes to get clear reasons why it crashed down.

It should be noted that this device is a stratospheric balloon from the Google company, designed to bring free Internet connectivity to rural and remote communities around the world.

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