Aquila, a drone with a 130-ft (40-m) wingspan built by social media company Facebook, is shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters on July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Facebook/Handout via Reuters
Facebook Inc’s days of dabbling in aerospace engineering are over.
The company said in a blog post Tuesday it will no longer design or build its own aircraft to beam Internet connectivity over regions with limited access, a project it has been working on since 2014. Facebook is also closing its facility in the UK that managed drone design, development and testing. The social network was able to build and test the drone, called Aquila, but never managed to deploy it.
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