Athena: Facebook, which has abandoned its aircraft designs to provide internet access to remote parts of the world, is once again seeking to launch satellites.
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 report that the social network wants to launch Athena, an Internet-providing satellite, into space in early 2019. The satellite is designed to "effectively deliver broadband access to underserved areas around the world," and as the project looks has been filed with the FCC under the company name PointView Tech LLC.
Facebook will work with SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company. Of course, this is not the first time that Facebook has tried to send a satellite into space. In 2016, a satellite of the social network was loaded onto a SpaceX rocket. Facebook's satellite was meant to provide connectivity across the African region, but SpaceX's rocket exploded during 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 Alphabet, which also abandoned one program with internet connection distribution balloons. 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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