Here is a vehicle called Sunglider, which was built and just successfully tested by HAPSMobile in New Mexico.
It is supported by the Japanese giant SoftBank.
It plans to provide access to a global network over areas of our planet where there is no developed telecommunications infrastructure. The Sunglider is a HAPS vehicle, i.e. a pseudo-satellite of high altitude, combining the advantages of drones and satellites.
Many companies see great potential in such machines.
Recently, Facebook boasted that the HAPS communication technologies it developed in its Aquila vehicles easily provide connections with a capacity of up to 40 Gbps over a distance of approx. 7 kilometers. The HAPSMobile vehicle can fly at an altitude of 20 kilometers and stay in the air for many months.
The vehicle is nearly 80 meters wide, equipped with 10 efficient electric motors and solar panels.
Sunglider can take an additional 70 kilograms of measuring equipment on board. Interestingly, the Japanese in their Sungliders will use Loon's cellular network technology, which is based on Internet balloons from Google (Alphabet).
HAPSMobile vehicles are expected to appear in the coming years not only in the central US states, where there are white spots in Internet access, but also in South America, Asia and Africa. SoftBank believes that access to the global network will translate into faster development in these areas
economic and poverty eradication.
Over the next decade, using the constellation of microsatellites, balloons and such vehicles, access to the Internet is expected to gain another 4 billion inhabitants of our planet who currently cannot use this amazing treasure of knowledge.