Facebook partners with Eutelsat to launch satellite to expand internet in 2016

Facebook has announced that it will be soon deliver internet from space. Owner of the social media page, Mark Zuckerberg made this announcement on his official page. The move is part of Facebook’s  Internet.org project that is partnering with Eutelsat to launch a satellite to connect millions of people.

The statement said “Over the last year Facebook has been exploring ways to use aircraft and satellites to beam internet access down into communities from the sky. To connect people living in remote regions, traditional connectivity infrastructure is often difficult and inefficient, so we need to invent new technologies.

As part of our collaboration with Euteslat, a new satellite called AMOS-6 is going to provide internet coverage to large parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. The AMOS-6 satellite is under construction now and will launch in 2016 into a geostationary orbit that will cover large parts of West, East and Southern Africa. We’re going to work with local partners across these regions to help communities begin accessing internet services provided through satellite.”

Facebook has intimated that there will be a number of initiatives in their bid to make internet global.

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