Google is still the haunting question maximum Internet coverage around the globe. After a rather unusual project Loon, in which the Internet is dealt with high-altitude balloons, a group of engineers of the laboratory Google X has switched to a completely new project, codenamed Skybender. The key point of the programme will be Autonomous drones are solar-powered, which will be distributed 5G Internet at speeds 40 times faster than standard LTE.
Officially the project has not yet been announced, but released it the portal to The Guardian, citing some secret documents. According to this, Google is currently testing drones to solar-powered on-site spaceport America in new Mexico. The signal transmission technology uses millimeter radio waves at a frequency of 28 GHz. This technology has one serious drawback – the Internet can give only relatively short distances, but his speed is superior to the LTE standard 40 times, reaching several gigabits per second. For the first time millimeter wave data have been used by the military Agency DARPA in 2012.
Adjust drones under the hand of such online is no easy task, but, apparently, Google has its own ideas on this, so the problem with short distances, engineers can solve it. Distribute Internet will be by means of “optionally piloted aircraft” (OPA) Centaur, as well as with Autonomous drones, the Solara 50 solar-powered, which is manufactured by Titan Aerospace. According to the documents, Google has permission from the FCC to conduct these tests until July 2016.