Facebook will launch its own satellite in 2019

Under the plan to connect billions of people who are still offline, Facebook is preparing to launch their own Internet satellite 'Athena', which will be installed in class at the beginning of 2019. This information has been given in the report of The Wired.

The report said on Friday that according to an application filed by Facebook under the name of Pointview LLC in front of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the project is designed to provide broadband access efficiently to the world's unviable and inefficient sectors. has been done.'

Although Facebook is not the only company working on the Internet to increase access to the internet through the Satellite of Lo Money Orbit. Oneweb, supported by Allen Musk's Space X and Softbank, has two other major companies, who have similar ambitions.