Facebook has completed construction of its first drone ‘Internet provider’; the aircraft will begin a test flight by the US in the coming months and will be in the air for 90 days.
The airplane named Aquila is part of the plan of social network connect to the population using satellites, drones and lasers. “There are four billion people in the world who do not have Internet access, we have much work to do to connect to the world,” said Jay Pakih, Global VP of engineering and infrastructure of the network at a press conference.
The speed of the internet connection is Airplane “tens of gigabits per second,” about 10 times faster than existing technology. “Being able to do this in space, through a plane, it’s something that nape has been done,” said Yael Maguire, director of engineering at Facebook Connectivity Lab.
The network said not intended to be a company that offers Internet services, but seeks to ally with local telecommunications companies to operate this service.
The researchers and engineers is a drone that can reach an elevation of between 18 thousand and 27 thousand meters, besides being able to operate in temperatures of -57 degrees Celsius for three consecutive months.
According to a press Quartz, the aircraft is covered with solar panels, it is about what the wing a Boeing 737 and weighs 880 pounds, about a third of what a Toyota Prius
The invention of Facebook not take off from the ground.; a helium balloon carries the airplane at the right altitude so you can take flight.
The company has not said how many drones built but his plan is to build a land-based connection to the planes share the connection; Airplanes can share the internet to other drones and each will provide Wi-Fi to a radius of 3 kilometers.
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