While everybody ’s eye were onGoogle I / O this hebdomad , another little morsel of Google news nearly managed to splay under the microwave radar : The tech giant ’s richly - flying , solar - powered Solara 50 laggard evidently crashed landed in the Baroness Dudevant east of Albuquerque week ago . Whoopsie .
The drone , perhaps inspire by one of thosegiant dragonfliesthat ruled the ancient Earth , was only a prototype , but an significant one . It was a model for a bombastic remote-controlled craft that Google envisions deploying to deliver Internet service in section of the world that miss sufficient priming coat - based infrastructure .
Titan Aerospace , which is build up the Solara test drones , says the last version will have a wingspread of 164 feet and cruise luxuriously above both clouds and normal atmosphere traffic , beaming signals to Earth like a satellite . Its batteries are apparently plan to put in enough electrical energy to keep the craft seethe all night long and to appease aloft for up to 5 eld .
That is , if it can stick up for five minute . The Solara 50 ’s untimely dusk shortly after takeoff on May 1st is a setback for the technical school giant , which , fit in toBloomberg Business , is in a bit of a contender with Facebook to see who can broadcast us Internet from the sky first .
Of course , we all love what ’s really run low on here . intelligibly , Google and Facebook are simply vying for the purity of being the very first bonafide Skynet . We ’ll account back when we see the prototype T-1000s . [ Bloomberg Business ]
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