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Aquila's First Flight: a Big Milestone Toward Connecting Billions of People

Mark and the team watching the flight (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Aquila in position prior to takeoff. (From left: Kathryn Cook, technical program manager for Aquila; Yael Maguire, head of Connectivity Lab; Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO; Jay Parikh, global head of engineering and infrastructure) (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Pre-fligh (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Aquila on the runway (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Andy Cox, chief aeronautical engineer, checking wind speed. (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Mark with some key members of the team at the test site. (From left: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO; Jay Parikh, global head of engineering and infrastructure; Kathryn Cook, technical program manager for Aquila; Yael Maguire, head of Connectivity Lab) (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Martin Gomez, head of aeronautical platforms, in the engineering statio (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Jay Parikh, global head of infrastructure and engineerin (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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A map showing the distribution of 4G, 3G and 2G connections around the world (as of February 2016) (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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A crane lowers Aquila onto a dolly (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Aquila Photo Captions (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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Facebook Newsroom (Source: Meta | 8 years ago)

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