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Facebook intends to launch a new satellite that would provide an Internet service, apparently trying to circumvent twice the site's failure in this area.
The new project aims to provide a broadband Internet service in areas where
According to Sky News, citing the US site "wired", he received a document on the new Facebook project, which shows the correspondence between representatives of the site and US federal authorities between 2016 and 2018, in which its representatives requested permission to launch an experimental satellite called "Athens".
"Reports reported earlier this year on the intention of" Facebook "to storm the satellite world after unsuccessful attempts.
The" Facebook "site US information the existence of the project "Athens", but did not disclose details.The launch of the satellite early 2019.
A satellite was to be launched from Facebook in 2016, to provide Internet in 14 African countries but the project failed after the explosion of the "Space X" disaster, the damage of 10 billion dollars.Because of this failure, Facebook lost about 200 million dollars.
The site Social networking has again tried to revive the idea of providing Internet to millions of people through the Aquila project, but the project also has a major failure.Closing the project.
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