Facebook completes first test flights of its solar-powered Aquila internet drone
Up in the sky, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a solar-powered internet drone!
It's no Christopher Reeve, but it's still exciting.
Facebook has revealed that it has completed the first successful flight of it's Aquila drone, which it hopes will eventually be used to provide internet access to remote regions of the world. The company, which has been testing a one-fifth scale version of the drone for months, initially hoped to fly the full-sized aircraft for 30 minutes, but far exceeded that goal.
In IT Blogwatch, we look to the sky.
What exactly is Aquila? Just an unmanned, solar-powered, internet-providing drone from Facebook. Yasmeen Abutaleb shares the important background information:
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