this month, Facebook has conducted successful tests of a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle powered by solar panels. On the same summer planned test flight of the UAV with a wingspan of 10 times - like the Boeing 737. According to The Wall Street Journal, despite the impressive size, weighs like a drone as a small passenger car.

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this month, Facebook has conducted successful tests of a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle powered by solar panels. On the same summer planned test flight of the UAV with a wingspan of 10 times - like the Boeing 737. According to The Wall Street Journal, despite the impressive size, weighs like a drone as a small passenger car.

Project Facebook is called Aquila, it is implemented in the framework of the initiative Internet.org, which also involves companies such as Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung and others. The project will provide access to the Internet via unmanned aerial vehicles solar in remote regions and developing countries.

the Drones will be flying at an altitude of about 20 thousand meters for months. Flight altitude will protect the UAV from the influence of the weather and the winds, they will not interfere with the aircraft, and commercial flights. Data plan to use technology FSO (Free Space Optics): the information reaches the destination through the atmosphere with electromagnetic waves in the optical range.

However, while this is in theory how to start an Internet drones Facebook engineers have to ensure safety, to enter into partnership agreements with Telecom operators and Internet providers.