Global Internet coverage of Facebook

On July 31, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company completed the full-featured data transmission aircraft named Aquila in the global Wi-Fi coverage project.

Facebook completes global Internet coverage

Earlier, Facebook talked about Aquila as a solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle using data to send data to the ground.

According to Zuckerberg, Aquila has wingspan like a Boeing 737 (about 42 meters) but it is lighter than a car and can stay in space for months.

This is a Facebook effort for the Internet.org project with the goal of bringing the Internet to people in remote areas at low or free prices.

According to Zuckerberg, that is about 10% of the world's population live in areas without Internet infrastructure. The way Facebook does is to use completely new technology so people can connect to the Internet at low cost.

In addition to successfully designing a solar plane that is light enough, Facebook also pioneered a number of laser data transfer technologies. According to Zuckerberg, Facebook has successfully tested 10 gigabits of laser data per second (gbps). This speed is said to be faster than any laser data transfer system that has existed 10 times before and its accuracy is able to connect to a point the size of a coin from a distance. 10 miles.

Laser data transfer is not a new technology . NASA used this technology to send data from the Earth to the Moon in 2013 at speeds of up to 622 Mbps at a distance of 384,630 km. Facebook's transfer rate as Zuckerberg announced is impressive.

Video revealed the construction of Aquila