Athena: Facebook, which abandoned plans to build aircraft, to provide accessς στο διαδίκτυο σε απομακρυσμένα τμήματα του world, is once again pursuing satellite launches.
According to Wired, the Federal Communications Commission (Federal Communications Commission) met several times with representatives of Facebook and its affiliates to discuss launching satellites that will fly low on Earth.
The information states that the social network wants to send to space Athena, an Internet-providing satellite, in early 2019. The satellite is designed to “effectively deliver broadband access to underserved areas around the world,” and the project appears to have been filed with the FCC under the company name PointView Tech LLC.
Facebook will work with SpaceX, the space company of Elon Musk. Of course this is not the first time that Facebook tried to send a satellite to space. 2016, a social satellite, was loaded into a SpaceX missile. Facebook's satellite was meant to provide connectivity across Africa, but the SpaceX rocket exploded during its launch.
Facebook then drew her attention to the Aquila project, a drone again for providing the internet. But he recently announced that stops the project.
The Athena satellite is a research project and Facebook reported to Wired:
We have nothing to say about the project at this time, but we believe that satellite technology will be an important factor in the next generation of broadband infrastructures, enabling broadband connections to rural areas where the Internet connection is incomplete or incomplete.
Facebook's competitor in this particular project is of course the company Alphabet, which also abandoned a program with balloona distribution of internet connections. To mention that SpaceX seems to be the winner of the case as it has launched already originals for a network of thousands of low-track satellites.
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