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Alphabet Again Exits Drones: Others Again Jump In, Reports IDTechEx
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Alphabet Again Exits Drones: Others Again Jump In, Reports IDTechEx In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. Facebook then exited its similar project, but the Chinese aerospace industry, Airbus, Boeing, and NASA are progressing them very well. Aloft for years, they will take 5G and 6G communications to everyone, perform surveillance, and more. Meanwhile, Alphabet, parent of the mighty Google, has now dumped its upper-atmosphere balloon version as well. The Chinese even have a smaller solar...