Google's Project Titan Gets FCC Approval, Will Start Testing

[Victorious Secret]

Project to deliver wireless internet access via unmanned drone aircraft OK'd by US federal governmentGoogle has been given the green light by the FCC to start testing of their solar-powered Titan drones, which will be used to beam down Wi-Fi to whatever region Google (and potentially other companies) wants to provide with internet access, such as natural disaster areas or sporting events.

Titan Aerospace, the drone-maker acquired last year by Google to help realize the project, recently applied for and received two licenses from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to run tests over the next six months.

The licenses, which are valid from March 8 until September 5, don't give away much because Google has asked the FCC to keep many of the details confidential for commercial reasons, but they reveal the tests will take place inside a 1,345 square kilometer (520 square mile) area to the east of Albuquerque. The area includes the town of Moriarty, where Titan Aerospace is headquartered and conducts its research and development work.

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[Admiral Naismith]

Pretty fly for the Wi-Fi.

[dlf]

For some reason I thought this was about Project Aria

[Master Disaster]

Now that's cool as fuck.

Any info on the actual drones though, I mean if they can only stay in the air for 2 hours its pretty useless.

[kpreg]

this is so fucking cool. people ca hire these ones for events. like the super bowl can have a wifi network

[werto165]

Have they talked about what sort of speeds that are possible with this? I guess its not phenomenal but good for general browsing I guess. 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Why does everything need to be named "Titan" 

[C0LL0SS0S]

The moment you realise that they only do things like that to gain more customers ^^

[Arty]

Now that's cool as fuck.

Any info on the actual drones though, I mean if they can only stay in the air for 2 hours its pretty useless.

im sure they will be light weight and run off solar+battery

[VerticalDiscussions]

The word "Titan" is overvalued and overused!  :mellow:

[Dani360c]

Now that's cool as fuck.

Any info on the actual drones though, I mean if they can only stay in the air for 2 hours its pretty useless.

they are solar powered an designed to "never" stop flying

[Guest Kloaked]

Are those solar panels on that drone?

[Victorious Secret]

Are those solar panels on that drone?

 

Yup. Continuous aerial flight, never needing to come down save for repairs or upgrades. 

[VerticalDiscussions]

they are solar powered an designed to "never" stop flying

What if the sun is blocked once theyr flying under night? Sure those panels have to absorb enough energy for at least 24H non-powering environments.

[Guest Kloaked]

Yup. Continuous aerial flight, never needing to come down save for repairs or upgrades.

Dear Santa..

[LiamApex]

WI-FLY

[Victorious Secret]

Dear Santa..

 

I'm sure the DoD has their own version strapped to the Reapers. 

 

You know, for delivering freedom in a environmentally safe manner. 

[niofalpha]

Why does everything need to be named "Titan" 

For when they revolt and enslave the world it still sounds bad ass.

[Dani360c]

What if the sun is blocked once theyr flying under night? Sure those panels have to absorb enough energy for at least 24H non-powering environments.

hopefully they dont advertise it as 24 h wifi service then the drones will just circle the earth i suppose unless there is enough battery power in that slim body maybe the moon reflect enough to keep them afloat

 

[Avcn42]

Should call'em something like Spy-Fly, NSAir, Wi-spy, or anything that actually represents its objective.

[Guest Kloaked]

NSAir

 

I like it.

[Me1z]

What if the sun is blocked once theyr flying under night? Sure those panels have to absorb enough energy for at least 24H non-powering environments.

 

I pretty sure that these drones are designed to fly at speeds where they will perpetually follow the sun light around the earth, always being charged and never needing to land. Think of them of very low orbiting satellites.

[Arty]

What if the sun is blocked once theyr flying under night? Sure those panels have to absorb enough energy for at least 24H non-powering environments.

im sure they will be able to fly over the clouds, and have batteries, and im sure the properer could stop and it could glide for a little

[zacRupnow]

Introducing the Google WRT-1900AC

[patrickjp93]

Lisa Su: Hello, today I'd like to discuss how AMD is pushing computing, and graphics even further today. When we announced our new Zen and K12 architectures and project Skybridge, we knew we were on the cusp of something BIG! Well, I'm here to announce AMD's new flagship hybrid ARM/x86 chip, the AMD Skybridge Atlas Titan, with up to 8 x86 Zen cores, up 12 ARMv8 k12 cores, and 8 GCN 1.3 compute cores. We'll be shipping this product sometime in the next month I'm proud to say. I think we'll really give the computing world the sort of shake-up it's been yearning for. I hope you enjoy the AMD Atlas Titan.