the Facebook Connectivity Lab is developing many new technologies to bring affordable internet access to more people, more quickly. One of the technologies we are building is a fleet of solar-powered aircraft called Aquila. Once they are fully operational, these high-altitude planes will stay airborne for up to 90 days at a time and beam broadband coverage to a 60-mile-wide area on the ground, helping to open the opportunities of the internet to people in under-connected regions.

1. Welcome

2. -Beaming Drone
Finally Takes Flight
Facebook’s
Giant
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3. What’s The Drone ?
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly
known as a drone, unmanned aircraft system
(UAS), or by several other names, is an aircraft
without a human pilot aboard. The flight of UAVs
may operate with various degrees of autonomy:
either under remote control by a human operator,
or fully or intermittently autonomously, by
onboard computers.

4. Benefits of Drones
The drones have practical applications that
have nothing to do with following....
➔ They can support low
enforcement.
➔ They can contribute to safe
infrastructure maintenance and
management.
➔ They can streamiline agriculture
Managemenet.

5. IN 2008 Google start a project that is
internet access via like a Drone.
Tip
Facebook’s Giant Internet is
a mission of 'internet.org'.
During TechCrunch Disrupt
on September 11, 2013
Zuckerberg elaborated
further on his vision.
TechCrunch blog
compared Internet.org with
Google's Project Loon
After starts a big
project share internet using
a big Drone.

6. This Is Not Small , Its Big
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Especially the
facebook gaint
internet drone is
big and its flying
like a plane.

7. Aquila
Aquila is the flying drone
Zuckerberg and company are designing to
provide Internet access in remote parts of
the world. It’s made of carbon fiber, and it
tops the wingspan of a 737. As the truck
reached full speed, the drone’s on-board
autopilot computer clipped the straps that
held the aircraft to the dolly, and Aquila rose
into the sky. Guiding itself via that same
computer, the drone flew for a good ’96
minutes’ in the restricted airspace of the
Yuma Proving Ground before landing in the
desert on its Styrofoam skids—Aquila’s first
successful flight.

8. The team had planned for the drone to spend half an hour navigating the winds and other turbulence, says
Gomez, Facebook’s director of aeronautical platforms. But things were going well enough that they
extended the flight, gathering still more data on the drone’s four motors, its autopilot system, its batteries,
and its radios.
Image:-Aquila moments after takeoff.

9. “The team had planned for the drone to
spend half an hour navigating the winds
and other turbulence”-says Gomez
Facebook’s director of
aeronautical platforms
But things were going well
enough that they extended
the flight, gathering still
more data on the drone’s
four motors, its autopilot
system, its batteries, and its
radios..
Image:-Aquila rests on her dolly, prior to takeoff.

10. Gomez and his team have flown several
significantly smaller prototypes over the past
year—a total of twenty-three flights in Great
Britain and the US—but on June 28, they
finally launched the real thing, all 140 feet of
it, as Facebook revealed today. The flight
didn’t break any records. It didn’t reach the
heights where Facebook says the drone will
eventually soar. And Aquila is still unfinished,
lacking the solar panels, high-altitude
batteries, Internet antennas, and other
equipment she will eventually carry into the
skies. But her maiden voyage is a milestone for
Facebook—and the larger effort to push the
Internet into all those places that don’t
already have it.
MILESTONE FOR FACEBOOK.

11. Facebook is fashioning all sorts of
contraptions to spread online access far
and wide, including new wireless
antennas, lasers, and satellites. In the
process, both companies are furthering
their own ends. If they expand the
Internet’s reach, they expand the reach
of Google and Facebook. But they’re
also helping the world communicate,
which is why this short flight over the
Arizona desert is so important. By
Facebook’s estimates, about 1.6 billion
people live in areas that don’t offer
mobile broadband.

12. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Vice President of Engineering Jay Parikh; Aquila
technical program manager Kathryn Cook; and Yael Maguire, the head of Facebook’s Connectivity
Lab.

13. The Technology Behind
‘Aquila’
On June 28th, we completed the first successful flight of
Aquila.
The Technology Behind ‘Aquila’

14. Getting the Internet
Airborne

15. Weight -- Aquila has a wingspan wider than a Boeing 737, but has to weigh as little as possible to
stay up for as long as possible. That's why the body of the plane is made of a carbon fiber composite
so the whole thing weighs less than 1,000 pounds -- or about the same as a grand piano. We need to
continue to make it lighter.
Power -- The amount of energy Aquila collects from the sun during the day has to be enough to
keep its propellers, communications payload, avionics, heaters and light systems running when it's
dark. That means using about 5,000W of power at cruising altitude, or about as much as three
hairdryers. We’re always looking for ways to trim this down and make our systems more efficient.
Control -- Aquila is mostly self-sufficient, but it still relies on a ground crew of about a dozen
engineers, pilots and technicians who direct, maintain and monitor the aircraft. They control the aircraft
through software which allows them to determine heading, altitude and airspeed -- or send Aquila on
a GPS-based route. Takeoff and landing are automatic, since no human pilot can land in a precise
location as well as software can.
Communications -- Aquila will carry a communications payload that will use lasers to transfer data
more than 10 times faster than existing systems. It will be able to aim its beams precisely enough to hit a dime
more than 11 miles away while in motion.

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