This huge wing you see in the picture, is a self-managed to fly for 96 minutes, thanks to solar energy only. And what if this project is finally completed, it is expected that the Internet enters the high flow to remote areas not reached by the Internet.
This experiment is the first test flight carried out by Facebook, and are related to the launch of Aquila, which is a drone (drone) with a huge size and modern design, and so throughout the 96 minutes and relying solely on solar energy. In this context, the American giant aspire to the formation of many more flights of this type of aircraft, and the aim of providing communication service of high-speed Internet access more than 400 million people and who lack at this time to the Internet for the benefit.
Thanks to the used building materials for manufactured and composed of carbon fiber, not the plane weighs only 400 kg Aquila. And it is also fitted with a wing stretched the breadth of 30 meters and with the push of a weak effort system but with a high return. And this is what they can not exceed the consumption of energy consumed by a small electric oven.
This looks and Facebook management now doubling experiments and tests with the promotion and the gradual rise in altitude, as well as the speed and the time periods for the process of flying. If passed everything is fine, it will be the plane Aquila able to operate at an altitude of 18 thousand square meters and a maximum speed of 128 km / per hour.
However, and for the last flight operations three months without interruption, and in order to cover all aircraft (drone) of the network, an area of 96 km, it must be equipped with solar panels for energy, which will bear the effort the energy of the aircraft, having been the use of batteries normal during this first flight experience.
It left as well as the need to prove that the plane Aquila can add Internet connectivity with a high speed flow on the ground. In this context, the Facebook management made promises to provide Internet connectivity tens of Giga-bytes per second.
Finally, the plane will be connected systems coupled with high-tech laser, which is now in the process of development and test.
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