Facebook Confirms It's Working on a New Internet Satellite

guest · Jul 21, 2018

Facebook Confirms It's Working on a New Internet Satellite
July 20, 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-confirms-its-working-on-new-internet-satellite/

According to emails obtained from the Federal Communications Commission in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by WIRED, and a confirmation from the company itself, Facebook is officially one of them.

The emails show that the social network wants to launch Athena, its very own internet satellite, in early 2019. The new device is designed to “efficiently provide broadband access to unserved and underserved areas throughout the world,” according to an application the social network appears to have filed with the FCC under the name PointView Tech LLC.

“The challenge with satellite internet today is really affordability—being cost-competitive with cable or other fiber distribution,” says Kerri Cahoy, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT who studies nanosatellites. [...] “The satellites are one thing that drives the cost, they’re pretty expensive to build.”
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