Facebook completes full-scale prototype of its solar-powered Internet drone Aquila, develops laser that transmits data at 10 gigabits per second
I'm excited to announce we've completed … Elizabeth Weise / USA Today : Facebook reveals plans for drone-based Internet in the sky Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Facebook Won't Be An ISP, But Built An Internet-Shooting Drone For Carriers Cade Metz / Wired : Facebook Is About to Test Its Enormous Solar-Powered Drone Ariha Setalvad / The Verge : Facebook's solar-powered internet plane looks like a stealth bomber Quentin Hardy / New York Times : Facebook Taking Open-Source Software Ethos to Drones Reuters : Facebook completes first giant solar-powered drone to beam internet from sky BL Ochman / What's Next Blog : Google and Facebook race to provide global connectivity Daniela Hernandez / Fusion : Facebook to launch giant Internet-delivery drones that can fly for 3 months without landing StreetInsider.com : Facebook (FB) Announced Plans to Use Long-Endurance UAVs for Additional Global Connectivity Devin Coldewey / NBC News : Facebook Shows Off Its Solar-Powered ‘Aquila’ Internet Drone Alejandro Alba / New York Daily News : Facebook ready to test its internet-providing drone Aquila Heather Kelly / CNNMoney : Facebook built a giant Internet drone Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business : Facebook Unveils Web-Connected Aircraft With Wingspan of a 737 Iain Thomson / The Register : Facebook will ZAP you with INTERWEBS using its FLYING LASER DRONE Brad Linder / Liliputing : Facebook's solar airplane beams internet from above Popular Mechanics : Facebook's Internet Drone Is a Giant Prop-Driven Boomerang Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review : Meet Facebook's Stratospheric Internet Drone Benjamin Snyder / Fortune : This is what Facebook's solar-powered Internet plane looks like Mark Prigg For / Daily Mail : Facebook's drone is ready for take off: Firm reveals giant craft with the wingspan of a 737 designed … Devin Kate Pope / TechSpot : Facebook will try to solve the Internet access gap with a huge, unmanned flying drone Edgar Alvarez / Engadget : Facebook made a solar-powered plane to deliver internet Kurt Wagner / Re/code : Facebook's New Plane — By the Numbers Sky News : Facebook Unveils Solar Drone With Internet Laser Zach Miners / CIO.com : Facebook aims to launch unmanned drone by year-end Ken Yeung / VentureBeat : Facebook's massive new drone will beam the Internet down to developing countries Alice Truong / Quartz : Facebook's internet-beaming drone is ready for testing Napier Lopez / The Next Web : Facebook's giant internet drone is ready for testing Independent.ie : Facebook ready to test giant drone - with wingspan of Boeing 737 - for internet service JP Mangalindan / Mashable : Facebook unveils more details about solar-powered drone Aquila USA Today : Jay Parikh on why Facebook is beaming the Internet from the sky Kurt Wagner / Re/code : Facebook Built an Actual Plane to Bring the World Internet Access