Mountain View, CA: Google has a new top secret project which is being run by the same team that gave the world Project Loon, reported The Guardian.

The aim of the project named Project Skybender is to deliver 5G internet from solar drones. The Mountain View-based firm has already started experimenting with millimeter wave-based internet in Virgin Galactic's Gateway to Space terminal at Spaceport America in New Mexico. It is believed that the millimeter waves could transmit data 40 times faster than LTE and could become the technology behind 5G internet. DARPA began working on an internet connection based on it for remote military bases in 2012.

University of Washington professor Jacques Rudell told The Guardian that "the huge advantage of millimetre wave is access to new spectrum because the existing cellphone spectrum is overcrowded. It's packed and there's nowhere else to go." but the millimeter wave transmissions has a problem and it is that they fade after a short distance and can't compare to a mobile phone signal's range.

Project Skybender is currently using an "optionally piloted aircraft (OPA)" called Centaur and a solar-powered drone called Solara 50 made by Titan Aerospace, which was snapped up by Google in 2014, for its tests.The FCC has permitted Google to continue testing the drone-internet system in New Mexico until July.