Thursday 30 July 2015
Facebook is getting ready to start testing its Aquila internet drone, which uses laser technology to deliver internet to remote areas from the sky. Aquila is a high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft that’s designed to circle a remote region for up to 90 days autonomously, helping deliver internet to people from an altitude of 60,000 to 90,000 feet. It’s wingspan is as big as a Boeing 737, but weight a hundreds of times less. When finalized, it will send the data via lasers, and Facebook’s also announcing a significant breakthrough in that technology as well: they can now send tens of gigabits…
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