Facebook is designing, developing, and building a giant, solar-powered, drone called Aquila that will beam internet data down to remote places.
It might be hard to believe, but there are still 4 billion people around the world who don't have access to internet, according to Facebook.
This is how Aquila is being built and how it will bring internet to the remotest of regions.
This is Aquila, the high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft designed by Facebook's aerospace team in the UK. It will deliver internet service to extremely hard-to-reach places around the world.
To do so, internet data will be beamed up from terrestrial relay stations to an Aquila aircraft, where the data will be transmitted among other Aquilas in the air.
Then, internet data is transmitted down to regions where traditional internet delivery methods can't realistically reach.
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