Facebook's massive solar powered drone, Aquila, has its first successful flight

07/21/2016 - 17:06

Martin Luis Gomez |   Andrew Cox | Image: Facebook


Today 1.6 billion people live in regions that don't have access to a mobile broadband network. Connecting these remote parts of the world with existing technologies such as buried optical fiber or microwave links on towers is often cost-prohibitive. As part of our commitment to Internet.org, the Facebook Connectivity Lab is developing many new technologies to bring affordable internet access to more people, more quickly.

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