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The aria tag on WindowsForum.com collects discussion of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency and its technology funding programmes. Coverage centres on ARIA's £70 million Enduring Atmospheric Platforms programme, which backs 18 teams working on high-altitude pseudo-satellites: unmanned stratospheric aircraft intended to stay on station over Britain for a full week while carrying a communications payload. Related themes include power beaming experiments that send energy upward from the ground, and the practical distinction between long-range research efforts and near-term broadband rollouts. Threads here suit readers tracking UK research agency funding, stratospheric platform engineering, and emerging communications and energy-delivery concepts.
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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...