Google Drones Titan
Remember that in 2014 Google purchased a company called Titan Aerospace drones? Well, here’s one of the most recent results of the acquisition: Google goes testing, in secret and in facilities of Virgin Galactic in New Mexico (United States), a bunch of drones that provide Internet from the heavens at speeds 5G or better, up to 40 times faster than current 4G LTE.
The project is codenamed Project SkyBender and reports the British newspaper The Guardian to execute, have rented 4572 square meters of Spaceport America, owned by the firm Virgin Galactic.
What has been tested is a transmission technology millimeter wave Radio ( millimeter-wave Radio transmissions ), one of the intended mount 5G networks, so that in the future as an enormous altitude, with thousands of drones, you can enable downloading multiple gigabytes data every second. Then, as you work is to exploit a new spectrum, however, lack solve a serious drawback and is its scope as a distributed thus signal barely reach one tenth of reach via 4G.
Drones Centaur
Finally, for more technical and even financial details, it reviewed the article in The Guardian . By the way, the drones that are putting walk Centaur option -with space for a pilot flying drones and some of Google Titan resulting a division of union with Titan Aerospace- solar-powered, with a wingspan of 50 meters and can accommodate flying to enormous heights
More info:. Article in The Guardian
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