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Airborne broadband on WindowsForum.com covers efforts to deliver connectivity from high-altitude platforms rather than satellites or ground towers. The tagged discussion examines the UK's ARIA Enduring Atmospheric Platforms programme, a £70 million, three-and-a-half-year effort involving 18 teams working on high-altitude pseudo-satellites that must stay powered and on station over Britain for a full week. It highlights power beaming from the ground as a key technical hurdle, and notes that this is a narrow proof-of-concept technology programme rather than a near-term national broadband rollout. The thread is relevant to readers tracking alternative connectivity infrastructure and the engineering limits behind stratospheric communications payloads.
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    UK ARIA £70m HAPS Program Tests Power Beaming, Not Broadband

    The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency has committed £70 million over three and a half years to 18 teams pursuing a difficult version of airborne broadband: keeping a communications payload powered, on station over Britain and aloft for a full week. The programme, Enduring Atmospheric...