Following the line of major technology industry fusions with U.S. Internet giant Facebook and friends from the valley of California as well as Amazon speeding up their drone delivery system, Google just bought Titan Aerospace, an high-altitude drone maker company which manufactures the Solara 50 solar-powered unmanned drone.
The Solara 50 drone flies at a very high altitude and can stay in orbit for about 5 years without planned maintenance. Google aims to use these properties to combine this technology together with Project Loon to provide Internet to the whole planet in future.
Operation is planned for the year 2015 helping Google to expand it’s global access to the Internet. Titan Aerospace only holds about 20 employees but provides next generation of solar-powered drone technology which perfectly fits to Google’s globalisation and free Internet access plans.
“It’s why we’re so excited to welcome Titan Aerospace to the Google family.”
This is the second purchase for Google within this year related to drone technology. Google bought Ascenta – an U.K. based drone technology company earlier in 2014 for about $20 million.
While Facebook also showed major interest in Titan Aerospace, Google made the deal to get it first. No option for Amazon here as the type of drones both companies use are quite different from their purpose. Drone technology is alreay here today and improving rapidly. What will they bring us? If we look to Google, they will bring permanent affordable Internet connections everywhere on Earth. If we look to Amazon, drones will soon deliver our postal and grocery packages door to door.
Like every technology human kind invented so far, it will be the same with drone technology left up to human intelligence to use it for a better purpose rather than military and all the negative effects we’re thinking of unmanned flying drones.