{"id":28196,"date":"2016-07-22T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/facebooks-solar-powered-internet-drone-takes-flight"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:31:40","slug":"facebooks-solar-powered-internet-drone-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/facebooks-solar-powered-internet-drone-takes-flight","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s solar-powered internet drone takes flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebooks-solar-powered-internet-drone-takes-flight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Thursday it had completed a successful test flight of a solar-powered drone that it hopes will help it extend internet connectivity to every corner of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Aquila, Facebook\u2019s lightweight, high-altitude aircraft, flew at a few thousand feet for 96 minutes in Yuma, Arizona, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on his Facebook page. The company ultimately hopes to have a fleet of Aquilas that can fly for at least three months at a time at 60,000 feet (18,290 meters) and communicate with each other to deliver internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) has also poured money into delivering internet access to under served areas through Project Loon, which aims to use a network of high-altitude balloons to made the internet available to remote parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-internet-drone-idUSKCN1012ZR\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-internet-drone-idUSKCN1012ZR<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Thursday it had completed a successful test flight of a solar-powered drone that it hopes will help it extend internet connectivity to every corner of the planet. Aquila, Facebook\u2019s lightweight, high-altitude aircraft, flew at a few thousand feet for 96 minutes in Yuma, Arizona, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,418,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-internet","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66816,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196\/revisions\/66816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}