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[3] Following construction at Ascenta's factory in Bridgwater, England, the Aquila prototype was disassembled and shipped to Arizona, where it was first flown on 28 June 2016.[7] In November 2017, a partnership with Airbus was announced to further development of the Aquila and the "high altitude platform station broadband connectivity system" (HAPS) project.[8] The same month, it was announced that Aquila would be displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum's spring "The Future Starts here" exhibition in 2018.[1] Aquila was intended to fly at altitudes of up to 90,000 feet (27,000 m) during the day,[1] dropping to 60,000 feet (18,000 m) at night, with an endurance of up to three months, providing Internet service to a 50 miles (80 km)-radius area below its flight path;[3] if communications spectrum was assigned for the project, it would allow the 66% of Earth's surface that has poor or no internet access to be connected.[8] The technology, which used high-bandwidth lasers to beam the Internet to remote locations,[11] was intended to provide access to 4 billion users, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.