[(Title)] Facebook grounds internet drone project

Facebook has grounded its plans to build solar-powered drones that can deliver the internet to remote communities.

Facebook已经启动了建设太阳能无人机的计划，这些计划能够向偏远社区提供互联网。

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, says:  "It is our mission to try to help connect everyone around the world."

Facebook首席执行官马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）说：“我们的任务是帮助连接全世界的所有人。

Facebook's aim was to develop a fleet of the drones. With a wingpsan bigger than a Boeing 737, they would fly for months at a time at 60,000 feet on the same amount of power as three hairdryers.

Facebook的目标是发展一批无人机，比波音737大，它们将飞行数月，每次飞行60,000英尺，其功率与3台吹风机相同。

The project was led by a Facebook facility in western England.

该项目由英格兰西部的一个Facebook机构领导。

But on Tuesday (June 26), director of engineering Yael Maguire – he's the one standing on the right – said that facility would close.

但是上周二（6月26日），工务部主任亚尔·马基尔说那座设施会关闭的。

The reason? Now that aerospace companies are investing in high-altitude aircraft Facebook has made the decision it doesn't need to design and build such platforms itself.

原因？现在，航空航天公司正在对高空飞行器进行投资，Facebook决定自己没有必要设计和建立这样的平台。

But the social media giant will still work with companies like Airbus to deliver so-called High Altitude Platform System connectivity more generally.

但社交媒体巨头仍会与空客等公司合作，以更普遍的方式提供所谓的高纬度平台系统连接。

Around four billion people – or more than half the world's population – do not have access to the internet.

大约40亿人，即世界人口的一半以上，没有上网的机会。

Facebook said it is continuing to work on next generation technologies to deliver its goal of connectivity for everyone.

Facebook表示，它正在继续开发下一代技术，以实现人人互联互通的目标。

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