The automaton – named Aquila – flew for one hour and 46 minutes in Arizona.
On Aquila’s launch the previous summer, the autopilot framework was confounded by substantial wind and crash-landed.
This time, the automaton flew at a height of 3,000ft, far from Facebook’s proposed 60,000ft objective.
The informal organization has driven arrangements for its automaton armada and in the long run needs to make them speak with each other by means of lasers and remaining noticeable all around for a considerable length of time at any given moment.
The test – which occurred in May however is just now being made open – went “splendidly”, as indicated by a blog entry specifying the flight.
Facebook had at first proclaimed its June 2016 test a win yet later conceded the automaton had smashed on landing.
The crash was just uncovered when it developed that it had been explored by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Facebook Aquila
This time, the building group included “spoilers” to the wings to expand drag and diminish lift amid landing. They additionally altered the autopilot programming and connected a smoother complete to the specialty.
The group shot the arrival and incorporated the video in the blog entry.
Executive of aeronautical stages Martin Luis Gomez said the automaton had endured “a couple of minor, effortlessly repairable dings”.
Aquila – which has a wingspan of a Boeing 737 – is a piece of Facebook’s aggressive arrangements to interface the world to the web.
This week, it declared that it has two billion clients, more than a fourth of the total populace.