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Submission + - Facebook's Drone will beam Internet Access to Billions of People from Sky

Submitted by rtoz
rtoz writes: At its F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook announced the first hardware it plans to use to beam the Internet down to billions of people around the world.

Codenamed "Aquila", the solar-powered drone has a wingspan comparable to a Boeing 737. But it weighs less than a small car.

It will be powered by solar panels on its wings and it will be able to stay at altitudes of more than 60,000 feet for months at a time.

Facebook says it’ll begin test flights this summer, with a broader rollout over the next several years.
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