uplink

noun

up·link ˈəp-ˌliŋk

: a communications channel for transmissions to a spacecraft or satellite

also : the transmissions themselves

: a facility on earth for transmitting to a spacecraft or satellite

uplink verb

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But one of the things that is emerging is the ability for uplinks and downlinks to both be incredibly robust and to handle massive amounts of capacity. —

Fortune Editors, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024 More promising has been NASA’s own tests last year of a 622 megabit per second laser uplink to the moon. —

IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2014 The downlink/uplink units were collectively referred to as the Site Controller (SC). —

Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023 The lower-bandwidth uplink from each terminal's keyboard and screen went into the node's concentrator, which multiplexed their signals and sent them back collectively to the NIU over a single regular voice-grade telephone line, also at 1260 bps. —

Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for uplink