Athena: The Facebook, which has abandoned plans to build aircraft 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 cmpersonof Facebook and its affiliates to discuss launching low-Earth orbit satellites.
Οι πληροφορίες αναφέρουν ότι το κοινωνικό δίκτυο θέλει στείλει στο διάστημα τον Athena, ένα δορυφόρο για την παροχή διαδικτύου, στις αρχές του 2019. Ο δορυφόρος έχει σχεδιαστεί για να "προσφέρει αποτελεσματικά ευρυζωνική πρόσβαση σε περιοχές που δεν καλύπτονται σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο" και όπως φαίνεται το project έχει κατατεθεί στην FCC με την επωνυμία της εταιρείας 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 turned its attention to the project Aquila, a drone again to provide internet. But recently he 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 protagonist in this project is, of course, Alphabet, which has also abandoned a program with internet-link distribution balloons. Let's say 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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