Gadgetory

so this is our Aquila system this is a flight from last year and to me this was one of the most incredible moments in my life where I got to see an aircraft roughly the wingspan of a Boeing 737 the mass one-third of a Toyota Prius running on the power of three blow dryers flying in the air for an extended period of time so I'm really excited that last year we announced that we achieved over a 13 kilometer length but 20 gigabits per second millimeter millimeter wave link and I'm really pleased to announce that using that same length the team almost doubled that rate and achieved 36 gigabits per second over that link so we beat our own world record we then we then flew it in a Cessna on the path to getting it into an Aquila and we achieve 16 gigabits per second in that system and then I mentioned optical links that may exist between aircraft and we actually have built an optical link also in the same 13 kilometer path and we achieved 80 gigabits per second so we're really really excited about that progress and to put that into context imagine streaming 4000 ultra high-definition videos simultaneously that's what we're able to do with the fastest system that we had available today so it's pretty cool an awesome achievement by our team so I'm really really excited about the millimeter wave and laser technology that we're designing for Aquila when we hope ultimately that systems like Aquila existing in the stratosphere will provide backhaul technology to other component technology like Open Cellular