How Loon’s Balloons Find Their Way to Deliver the Internet

Watching a balloon zag instead of zig, Sal Candido often feels like Dr. John Watson observing Sherlock Holmes. As CTO of Loon, the Alphabet company that last summer spun out of X (née Google X), Candido is in charge of the balloons that bop through the stratosphere, beaming the internet to people below. Flying about …