Facebook connects the planet. Mark Zuckerberg's social network, in fact, is reportedly working on a project called Internet.org which, by exploiting various systems, including self-powered solar-powered drones, brings internet connections to large areas of the planet that are not yet connected to the global computer network.
Read this way, Facebook's goal could be to react to the prospect of the decline in the growth of new users by investing (it is said to be around 2 billion dollars) to create new markets out of nothing, reaching all those people (two-thirds of the population worldwide) who do not have access to the network.
This idea is confirmed by the words of Mark Zuckerberg himself, who also spoke of a task force made up of about fifty aeronautical technicians and space technology experts, also partly recruited by NASA.
With this in mind, Facebook has also acquired the British Ascenta, a start-up specializing in solar-powered drones that could represent a key element in the operation. In the absence of costly infrastructure investments, in fact, certain areas can only be covered by exploiting satellites, which however involve enormous management costs which could be reduced by exploiting drones kept alive by photovoltaic panels, capable of operating autonomously at lower costs .
