Not so long ago Facebook corporation announced its intention to hold the Internet in the most remot

Not so long ago Facebook corporation announced its intention to hold the Internet in the most remote corners of the world (a similar statement earlier made and Google). According Facebook, the best way to implement home and away such a project is the use of drones - automatic aircraft. Drones should be at a high altitude, so as not to pose a threat to the current air service, and work as retraslyator signal. Now the company clarified home and away that from itself will represent such aircraft. According to a representative of Facebook, drones will be sized Boeing 747, but weigh much less than the plane. About the size of the drone was even said that the size of one of the models on which work is now on Facebook, equal to the size of 6-7 cars Toyota Prius, and the weight of the drone is small - roughly equal to the mass of four tires of the same Toyota. Detailed technical information company does not result, unfortunately, so you have to take such "system units" on Facebook, such as airplanes, cars and tires. home and away Such drones will fly at high altitude - much higher than flying passenger liners (20-25 kilometers), and in the air they will be months and years. In this legislation until the US or other countries does not provide regulation of flight at a height that is equal to, if not described in the rules for signal transceivers, located home and away at an altitude of 20-25 km. The first sample of the drone will be tested next year in the US. The task of creating a flying drones that provide access to the network population of remote areas is not so simple. Authors of the project is necessary to address issues in materials, aviation, solar energy and affect many other areas. It is worth mentioning that the project is designed to perform in 21 countries, including Latin America, Africa and Asia. Via mashable
Dialogue on the Internet: Facebook May 10, 2011 at 16:01
Well, OK. Let drones flying and commuting to the worldwide network + they have enough powerful transmitters to signal to the ground shot through. But then what? People home and away do not have sufficient funds to make the Internet in their field, will have to buy special transducers for further signal processing? Or is it the switching equipment they will just give Google / Facebook?
Suppose drone flying at an altitude of 15km - is much less effective distance home and away covering a radio tower (though for those who are directly under the drone). Throw in the absence of physical barriers to the signal. In my opinion better than terrestrial BS should work, and maybe better!
According to the GSM standard maximum distance phone from the base station is 35 km away. This limitation relates to the maximum delay time of signal reception. It is worth noting that it is possible to increase the range of the 70-100 km. This technology is called Extended Cell. We will not go into the technical details. Note only that the use of this technology the number of available channels is reduced home and away to 2-3. Extended Cell justified when used to cover sparsely home and away populated areas. In general, it seems that it will likely any palest hue EDGE and scheduled when the drone is flying relatively close.
It became interesting, at what height home and away you can fly over the country, so you do not have the right to shoot down as trespassers.
Limit some have. Satellites also fly. Another thing is that in the case of real conflict spit on treaties. Type they now stop someone. UN and UN SobBez already solves nothing. "We then decided to overcome the local evil for good. I had to drop a few bombs. Resolution? Why? We're doing good. "
Sources say that the "general" begins with a height of 100-110 km. Ie the article says is absolutely correct: the question is to regulate the fly at an altitude of 20+ miles in a particular country, in its domestic laws.
Agreements have peresoglashat means. And that damned launch their Facebook drones over the blessed Russian, and starts Internet access without home and away the filter roskomnadzorovskogo provide. Here it immediately and the law on air podmahnut providers, so traffic through a server in Russian Federation chased and evasion - shot down or put jammers, as in the good old days.
Actually, not so simple. References FAI considered "common space" above the line all pockets - the boundary on which the rate required home and away to maintain the aerodynamic flight home and away (that is supported by the lifting force of the wing), due to a fall in atmospheric density becomes home and away higher than the first space. It is approximately 100 kilometers. However, it is quite significantly lower than the actual lower limit of low orbits (because even after 100 km of the atmosphere is dense enough to efforts home and away to maintain the first cosmic velocity must still be substantial). Because anything below 100 km, is still subject to the rules for civil and military aviation. There are some special SLN