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The drone Facebook Aquila is a solar-powered aircraft that carry Internet to remote and underserved areas.
Facebook has just built a giant solar drone that remain in the stratosphere for months at a time, transmitting broadband Internet to rural and hard to reach areas.
The drone, called Aquila, is one year old baby Connectivity Lab Facebook. The laboratory has been developing new technology as part of the mission of the social network to “connect everyone in the world”.
Four billion people have no access to the internet and 10% of the population World lacks the necessary infrastructure to stay connected. To reach these people, Facebook is working on drones, satellites, lasers and terrestrial Internet technology.
On Thursday, Facebook is showcased with images of their first full-size drone and announced other project milestones. Team researchers say they have found a way to use lasers to carry data speeds ten times faster than the industry standard.
Facebook has been working on the Aquila for a year, building it from the technology it acquired when in 2014 the company bought drones UK Ascenta. The unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy is designed to fly well above commercial airspace and climate, and stay in the air for three months at a time. This could give Internet access to people located on land within 80.47 kilometers.
“It’s like a kind of backbone of the internet using lasers in the sky, that is the dream we have,” said Yael Maguire, engineering director of the Laboratory Connectivity Facebook.
Aquila flight has not yet risen, but the team based in the UK has made flight tests in a series of scale models . Over the next six months, the group will make structural tests and other measures to eventually take it out for its first test flight.
The technology is years away from being used in the field … Facebook yet does not have an exact schedule.
The Aquila drone looks like a giant boomerang-shaped ‘v’.
This is 42.67 meters in diameter-roughly the same scale as a Boeing 737 – and it is covered with solar cells. It is made of lightweight carbon fiber that is two to three times stronger than steel when cured. It will weigh about 339 kilos when fully equipped with motors, batteries and communications equipment.
There will require a runway. Aquila will be released by attaching it to a helium balloon that will take floating beyond the weather and commercial airspace. During the day, he will sail in circles to 27.432 meters, absorbing solar energy. At night, save energy surfing to up to 18.288 meters high.
Although current regulations require a pilot on the ground for each drone, Facebook hopes to design the Aquila so you can fly without a pilot dedicated .
For the Internet, a laser system will connect the ground and drone. A team of Facebook has been working on laser technology in California, and says he has reached speeds of tens of gigabytes per second … that is fast enough to allow hundreds of thousands of people have access to broadband Internet form simultaneous.
The laboratory works with Internet.org Facebook, which has been criticized because people are only giving them access to a limited amount of Internet services. But Aquila is designed to provide broadband Internet. Facebook also will take care of itself plans. Instead, the company plans to work with local suppliers and governments to actually deploy the technology, however, the details are still unknown.
“Building large aircraft and sell is not essential to our mission of connecting people, “said Jay Parikh, vice president of engineering. “We will take this issue and become ‘Facebook ISPs (internet service provider)”
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