Facebook Tests Millimeter-Wave Comms For Aquila UAV

Credit: Facebook
Facebook has demonstrated the millimeter-wave (MMW) communications link it plans to use with the Aquila solar-powered, long-endurance stratospheric unmanned aircraft under development to provide internet access to remote regions. In a terrestrial point-to-point test in Southern California, the MMW...

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