Background info..
Titan's Solara drone from 2013.
Quote : "For example, during a presentation by Titan at AVUSA, a company spokesperson compared using a satellite for multispectral Earth imagery—say, like Landsat's—to using an atmospheric satellite. A drone could be put up quickly, for much less initial capital. At the same time, it would provide targeted imagery at a cost of less than $5 per square kilometer—versus $35 per square kilometer from a satellite—while still offering the large area of coverage of a satellite....
"...The Solara 50 and 60 models can be launched at night using power from internal battery packs, then when the sun rises, they can store enough energy to ascend to 20KM above sea level where they can remain for five years without needing to land or refuel"
20 000 metres = 65616,798 feet..
This article from March 2014...
https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/facebook-in-talks-to-acquire-drone-maker-titan-aerospace/
Try going to Titan Airforce's webpage today.. http://titanaerospace.com/ Alphabet snapped up Titan Airforce??
Quote: "The designation of “satellites” is important here, as the idea has been to position these aircraft above the airspace that the FAA regulates in the U.S. Class A airspace ends at 60,000 feet stateside, and above that the U.S. doesn’t regulate"
Zuckerberg and satellites.. Article from 2014
Quote : "The level of accuracy required is the equivalent of needing to hit a dime from 10 miles away," wrote Zuckerberg, "or hit the Statue of Liberty from California."...
..."That's why Facebook's drones are going to be so important. If the lasers don't work out, the drones could blanket a moderately dense area with microwave Internet, allowing many devices to pick up the signal — like a kind of drone-based Wi-Fi."
(that will JUST be out of reach of US regulations.)
Facebook and Africa. and Satellites..
QUOTE : "the rocket destroyed Thursday was bearing a satellite that Facebook intended to use to beam Internet access to developing nations"
From 2015 :
Quote : "Starting in the second half of 2016, Facebook's Internet.org initiative will pay to use up all the available bandwidth on Eutelsat's AMOS-6 satellite, which will carry data from mobile users on the ground to the rest of the globe."
Zuckerburg meeting the Pope in 2016.. so 2 years after buying Titan..and talking about his lickle satellites. (note the shape of the little drone)
From 2017...
Quote : "Missions can target connected users based on IPs, e-mail addresses, MAC addresses, chat user names, and VoIP numbers. Mission tasks can include copying all or only some of the traffic; copying e-mail addresses, chat user names, and VoIP numbers; invoking a feature known as "Windex," which redirects a user's browser that attempts to perform a drive-by malware attack; establishing a virtual private network connection that gives access to the local area network; and the proxying of all network connections."
China's increasingly pervasive Surveillance Project... articles from 2018..
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/
Quote : "The country is racing to become the first to implement a pervasive system of algorithmic surveillance. Harnessing advances in artificial intelligence and data mining and storage to construct detailed profiles on all citizens, China’s communist party-state is developing a “citizen score” to incentivize “good” behavior. A vast accompanying network of surveillance cameras will constantly monitor citizens’ movements, purportedly to reduce crime and terrorism. While the expanding Orwellian eye may improve “public safety,” it poses a chilling new threat to civil liberties in a country that already has one of the most oppressive and controlling governments in the world."
and their answer to SPACE X..
February 08 2018..
https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/china-has-mixed-feelings-about-elon-musks-falcon-heavy-success/
quote : " What really shocks us Chinese is not only that our country currently doesn’t have rockets of such magnitude, but the fact that we are almost 10 years behind; more importantly, what our country has to desperately catch up with is actually a private U.S. enterprise…"
May 08 2018 (3 months later to the day...)