Those words echoed through an airfield at Castle Airport early Friday morning as a team of Google officials launched the first of eight high-altitude balloons over Merced County. The balloons were ...

ATWATER, Calif. (KFSN) -- Google is working to make the internet accessible to everyone with the help of balloons. And some of the key research is underway at Castle Airport in Atwater. A small white ...

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A balloon festival which attracts thousands of visitors each year will not go ahead in 2024, organisers said. The Yorkshire Balloon Fiesta, which moved from York Racecourse to Castle Howard in 2023, ...

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A Google balloon rises into the air from Castle Airport in Atwater on Friday. The company is testing the balloons as part of Project Loon, a technology that will provide internet access to rural areas ...

The popular Yorkshire Balloon Fiesta has been called off this year. Organisers of the event, hosted at Castle Howard last year and on the Knavesmire in York before, took to social media to share the ...