Facebook confirms that this is building internet satellite, expected to launch in 2019
To add billions of people still going offline, Facebook's next big bet is an Internet satellite called Athena. According to the Wired report, the social media giant has filed a project named "the Point of Vision LLC" under the name of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which is designed to "provide broadband access to the safe and underworld areas across the world" has gone. Internet satellite, Athena, is expected to be launched sometime in the beginning of 2019.
Facebook is not the only technical giant who is seeking to provide high-speed internet in remote and accessible areas of the world through satellites in low Earth orbit. Allen Musk's SpaceX and SoftBank supported back OneWeb share similar ambitions, which are launching such a satellite - called Starlink - before this in February this year.
"However, at this time we have nothing to share about specific projects, we believe that satellite technology will be an important enabler of next-generation broadband infrastructure, which is possible to bring broadband connectivity to rural areas, Where there is a lack of internet connectivity or is not non-existent, "Wired had quoted a Facebook spokesman.
Facebook's unknowable connect with the world is not new. The company has already stepped down from the road to abandon its projects. Facebook's high profile project Akila expresses the desire to distribute the Internet to nearly four billion people in remote parts of the world through a high powered solar powered drone. The company started mission in 2014 and in 2017, it successfully completed its second full-level test flight. Such a solar powered drone had to fly for months of landing, 60,000 feet above the remote areas.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg believed Aquila to do something that was "never done before." But many shocks, and controversy (especially related to its Internet org project) saw its end.
"As we have worked on these efforts, it has been exciting to see leading companies in the aerospace industry that the investment in this technology is also starting - including the design and construction of new high-altitude aircraft. We have not decided whether we should design or make our own plane now, and turn off our facility in Bridgewater. As we move forward, we will normally see Airbus On-HAPs will continue to work with partners such as connectivity, and computer and high-density batteries like flight control on other technologies required to work this system, "Facebook announced in a blog post in June this year.
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