Google Inc. prefers to experience their flying base stations on the state of New Mexico, and commercial operation of balloons with the relaying equipment expects to start over Indonesia. In addition, aircraft Titan Aerospace originally calculated with an eye on the operation at altitudes above 18,000 meters.
According to the publication The Guardian, a "test airfield" in the state of New Mexico Google leases the company Virgin Galactic, which can not give birth to project "space tourism" using suborbital flight vehicles reusable. The rent is $ 1,000 per day, with Virgin Galactic prohibits Google employees to conduct photographing inside the hangar, which they rent.
Google expects to use for communication between aircraft and ground-based infrastructure radio waves of millimeter range. Formally, they belong to a generation wireless 5G. Stated gigabit data transfer rate, but the range of one base station is inferior networking opportunities generation 4G. If we consider that drones with relaying equipment must be lifted to a height of 18 km, the problem of ensuring reliable communication with Earth infrastructure is acute. Related Products :
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