Google still is haunted by the question of maximum online coverage of the entire globe. After a rather unusual project Loon, in which the Internet is dealt with high-altitude balloons, a group of Google X laboratory engineers switched to a completely new project, codenamed Skybender. The key to this program will be autonomous drones solar-powered, which will distribute 5G-speed Internet at up to 40 times superior to the LTE standard.

Officially, the project has not yet been announced and unveiled its portal The Guardian, referring to some secret documents. According to these records, Google is currently testing a solar-powered drones on the territory of the spaceport "America" ​​in New Mexico. signal transmission technology uses millimeter radio waves at a frequency of 28 GHz. In this technology, there is one serious drawback - such Internet can distribute only in relatively small distances, but its speed is superior to the LTE standard 40 times, reaching several gigabits per second. For the first time millimeter wave data were used by the military agency DARPA in 2012.

Adapt drones under the distribution of such Internet - not an easy task, but, apparently, Google has its own ideas on this subject, so that the problem with short distances engineers may well decide. To distribute the Internet will be using the "optionally piloted aircraft» (OPA) Centaur, as well as with the autonomous drones Solara 50 solar-powered, which are manufactured by Titan Aerospace. According to documents from Google Inc. have permission of the FCC to conduct these tests until July 2016.