How to Use downlink in a Sentence
downlink
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Mission control will watch over the downlink for the last bits of Cassini’s data.
—Shannon Stirone, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
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The downlink speeds—the rate at which ISS can send data to ground stations—is a blazing 300 megabits per second.
—Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2017
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That’s more reliable than in the past, when satellite uplinks and downlinks were key.
—Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 5 Sep. 2017
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In more rural areas, C-band downlink is paired with the long-range band 5 for uplink, and coverage is more restricted by the range of the C-band, Stone said.
—Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 4 Mar. 2022
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On the gigabit connections, upload speeds are restricted to only 52Mbits/sec, which is roughly a twentieth of the speed of the downlink.
—Barry Collins, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
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The team calculated that satellite transmissions will lead to a 70% loss in sensitivity in the downlink band.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2020
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But successful downlinks through Earth’s atmosphere depend on the weather.
—Sophia Chen, Wired, 29 Apr. 2020
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Each downlink is a 20-minute session either hosted live or live with prerecorded questions from students.
—Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Nov. 2021
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Then the celebrations can begin in earnest, followed shortly thereafter by the downlink of some of the most important close-encounter observations.
—Rich Talcott, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2015
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As a result, the spacecraft automatically entered safe mode, losing downlink with the Deep Space Network.
—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2015
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The downlink lasted only 20 minutes, but that precious time is something these students will always remember.
—David Aaro, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2018
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The images are still on the spacecraft, so Church is monitoring its data from her computer—one of a dozen on the table, some open, some closed—and instant messaging her colleagues at Lockheed Martin in Denver for the status of the downlink.
—David W. Brown, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
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With 20 dBm in uplink-output power and 12 dBm in downlink-output power, the booster easily reaches cellphone towers.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
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Martian spacecraft have uplink and downlink windows that vary throughout the year due to differences between Earth and Mars rotations, according to Canberra.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2018
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Both are technically 5G, but devices that support multiple 5G bands are expected to offer the superfast downlink speeds that have been promised with this next-generation wireless standard.
—Boone Ashworth, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
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Mission control will watch over the downlink for the last bits of Cassini’s data.
—Shannon Stirone, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
-
The downlink speeds—the rate at which ISS can send data to ground stations—is a blazing 300 megabits per second.
—Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2017
-
That’s more reliable than in the past, when satellite uplinks and downlinks were key.
—Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 5 Sep. 2017
-
In more rural areas, C-band downlink is paired with the long-range band 5 for uplink, and coverage is more restricted by the range of the C-band, Stone said.
—Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 4 Mar. 2022
-
On the gigabit connections, upload speeds are restricted to only 52Mbits/sec, which is roughly a twentieth of the speed of the downlink.
—Barry Collins, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
-
The team calculated that satellite transmissions will lead to a 70% loss in sensitivity in the downlink band.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2020
-
But successful downlinks through Earth’s atmosphere depend on the weather.
—Sophia Chen, Wired, 29 Apr. 2020
-
Each downlink is a 20-minute session either hosted live or live with prerecorded questions from students.
—Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Nov. 2021
-
Then the celebrations can begin in earnest, followed shortly thereafter by the downlink of some of the most important close-encounter observations.
—Rich Talcott, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2015
-
As a result, the spacecraft automatically entered safe mode, losing downlink with the Deep Space Network.
—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2015
-
The downlink lasted only 20 minutes, but that precious time is something these students will always remember.
—David Aaro, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2018
-
The images are still on the spacecraft, so Church is monitoring its data from her computer—one of a dozen on the table, some open, some closed—and instant messaging her colleagues at Lockheed Martin in Denver for the status of the downlink.
—David W. Brown, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
-
With 20 dBm in uplink-output power and 12 dBm in downlink-output power, the booster easily reaches cellphone towers.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
-
Martian spacecraft have uplink and downlink windows that vary throughout the year due to differences between Earth and Mars rotations, according to Canberra.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2018
-
Both are technically 5G, but devices that support multiple 5G bands are expected to offer the superfast downlink speeds that have been promised with this next-generation wireless standard.
—Boone Ashworth, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
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