In order to ensure the most remote corners of our planet free access to the Internet, Facebook company is ready to launch in many air UAVs, using solar energy they are able to serve the public good up to five years. Interestingly, Google for similar purposes is ready to use a simpler solution - a balloon equipped with the necessary telecommunications equipment and solar battery.
This initiative is called Project Loon. Balls in the upper atmosphere, the rate of which varies from 2 to 75 knots. To control the movement of the balloon used special predictive models to determine in advance the trajectory of the object. Also, developers have managed to improve the pump controlling the volume of air in the ball, which allows much faster to change the height and catch the right wind.
Google claims that since the start of the test project Loon balloons flown over 500,000 miles, and one of the balloons with a simple number I-167 circled the globe in 22 days, almost four times improving achievement Phileas Fogg.
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