Google lost in New Mexico, powered drone … – PC World

Bloomberg reports that Google has lost one of the drones in
 During the tests carried out in New Mexico. To
 the unfortunate accident occurred in the area of ​​research outside of Albuquerque.
 Dron, which was powered by solar energy, located
 at an altitude of about 20,000 feet suddenly began to fall and
 eventually crashed . Fortunately, in an accident
 Device nobody was hurt. The accident occurred on May 1.

Solara 50. Drones, which has created Titan
 Aerospace

It was one of the drones in the project Solara 50, which
 prepared by the company Titan Aerospace . Google
 It took it over last year. It is one of two projects of the company with
 Mountain View, under the initiative of the Internet in the sky. The second is
 Loon Project, which uses balloons.

Google in this way wants to fight with Facebook and its similar
 ideas in cooperation with Internet.org. It is worth noting that Mark
 Zuckerberg last year also was interested in taking over
 Titan Aerospace.

»See also:
  Drones – unusual use of flying
 Robots

_{Source: TNW}