Google Satellite Employee Greg Wyler Leaves Company

Apparently, a key employee leading Google's efforts to beam Internet access from satellites has left the company and is now working closely with Space Exploration Technologies and its founder Elon Musk.

Greg Wyler had joined Google in 2013 as part of a $1 billion-plus Google effort to offer Internet access to unwired parts of the globe. It is unclear what Wyler's departure means for that project. Wyler took with him the rights to certain radio spectrum that could be used to provide Internet access. Wyler apparently formed a new venture, WorldVu Satellites Ltd., that designs satellite systems and controls the rights to that spectrum. Brian Holz and David Bettinger, who joined Google with Wyler from O3b Networks Ltd., also have left Google. O3b is a private satellite company founded by Wyler.