Facebook Stop Free Drone Carrier Project
One of the obstacles is that the spectrum available for the platform does not match the required broadband specifications. "Therefore, we decided to start from the beginning.Of course, the connectivity HAPS (high altitude platform station) owned by Aquila needs more than airplanes," said Yael as quoted by KompasTekno from the official Facebook blog on Saturday (30/6 / 2018).
He continued, Facebook is currently more focused to develop applications and work with aerospace companies to provide internet transmitter network from a height. "We started to develop this program, then the leading companies in the aerospace also began to make this technology," he continued. Aquila itself is Mark Zuckerberg's ambitious project to "connect" people through internet connections that are propagated using non-drone aircraft. The project started in 2014 under the initiative of Internet.org .
Indonesia was also offered up to try to use this plane to deliver the internet to remote areas. The offer took place in 2016 and was recognized by Vice President Jusuf Kalla.
But the drone's design still has weaknesses in the structure. This weakness was revealed after transport safety investigators in the US said it was conducting an investigation. Facebook's effort to spread the internet is not limited to the Aquila project. They also have a free internet satellite launch project called AMOS.
The possibility of discontinuation of Aquila project because Facebook wants to focus more on the use of satellites to spread internet connection.
According to Yael Maguire, Dirctor of Engineering Facebook, the project was discontinued due to technical limitations faced by Facebook. One of the obstacles is that the spectrum available for the platform does not match the required broadband specifications.
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