{"id":217622,"date":"2017-06-30T08:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T06:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=217622"},"modified":"2017-06-30T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T07:01:40","slug":"facebooks-aquila-making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/217622-facebooks-aquila-making-progress.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s Aquila making progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has <a href=\"https:\/\/code.facebook.com\/posts\/200887800439084\/aquila-s-successful-second-flight-another-step-forward-in-bringing-the-world-closer-together\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reached another milestone<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the Aquila programme, completing a second full-scale test flight of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Aquila is a solar-powered plane that can be used to bring Internet connectivity to people.<\/p>\n<p>Aquila will be able to circle a region up to 60 miles in diameter, beaming connectivity down from an altitude of 60,000 feet using laser communications and millimetre wave systems.<\/p>\n<p>Aquila is designed to fly for up to three months at a time, and\u00a0flew for 1 hour and 46 minutes in its latest test.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has incorporated a number of modifications to Aquila, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adding \u201cspoilers\u201d to the wings, to increase drag during landing.<\/li>\n<li>Incorporating more sensors.<\/li>\n<li>Modifying the autopilot.<\/li>\n<li>Integrating new radios.<\/li>\n<li>A smoother finish on the plane<\/li>\n<li>A horizontal propeller-stopping mechanism to support landing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEngineering%2Fvideos%2F10155377054702200%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/217320-facebook-reaches-two-billion-users.html\">Facebook reaches two billion users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has reached another milestone in the Aquila programme, completing a second full-scale test flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":217624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[31830,161],"class_list":["post-217622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-aquila","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217654,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217622\/revisions\/217654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}