Social network Facebook is actively working on other projects that will deliver the Internet to remote corners of the Earth. Recently the company showed unmanned 43-metre device called the Aquila, which is able to distribute the Internet from a height 18-27 km above the surface. Over an area the drone can fly for 90 days.

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Social network Facebook is actively working on other projects that will deliver the Internet to remote corners of the Earth. Recently the company showed unmanned 43-metre device called the Aquila, which is able to distribute the Internet from a height 18-27 km above the surface. Over an area the drone can fly for 90 days.

Launch into the sky, the machine will be using balloons, which will raise it to a predetermined height. The weight at Aquila considerable — almost 400 kg. to Keep such a machine in the air help solar panels. Likely to pass the Internet connection the drone will be using the laser, developed by a team Facebook. He is now undergoing lab tests and demonstrates the speed of data transmission at 10 GB/s From a distance of 16 km, the laser is able to accurately hit the receiver the size of a coin.

Earlier his vision for the future of Internet transmitters showed Google. In Sri Lanka, the company began launching balloons that are supposed to make high speed Internet more affordable for all citizens of this state.