How to Use uplink in a Sentence

uplink

noun

• Right now, the uplink is being established and over the coming days the software patch will be sent to Mars and installed.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
• In tests of the system, the uplink could send 4 gigabits per second while adding just 176 femtojoules per bit of heat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The units need only a simple satellite uplink to work, and plenty of electricity.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2021
• But while Anik F1R still had its uplink license and transponder slot lease, Koscher had the opportunity to take over and broadcast to the northern hemisphere.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
• Sometimes those envelopes contain the uplink, or commands.
  — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 15 Mar. 2018
• However, some groups will need 10 years, and others like air combat training telemetry and high-powered satellite uplink users, will just share spectrum rather than move to a new spectrum band.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
• In the video, Hemani Kalucha, the science payload uplink lead for SuperCam, explains why the ability to zap rocks from 23 feet away is so valuable to the rover and to the scientists that will eventually use the data.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 12 June 2021
• At the same time, there are some who question the ability of 5G to handle broadband connections to the home—particularly for uplink purposes—which leads us to the final event of the week, hosted by AT&T.
  — Bob O'Donnell, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• While the development of the new software change is straightforward, the process of validating it and completing its uplink to Ingenuity will take some time.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 13 Apr. 2021
• Instead of computing on its own, Minitel connected to remote services via uplink, like a 1960s mainframe or a modern Google Chromebook.
  — Julien Mailland, The Atlantic, 16 June 2017
• In order to bring broadband to the moon, scientists used four separate telescopes based in New Mexico to send an uplink signal to a receiver mounted on a satellite orbiting the moon.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2014
• Thanks to the new uplink, a pilot in a sim at Nellis can fly their F-35 alongside a virtual F-16 operated by another aviator in a simulator in, say, Asia.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 30 June 2020
• 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
• Adapting a small wind turbine with environmental sensors, a weatherproof computer, and a 4G uplink, the machine uses wind energy as a source of electricity to mine cryptocurrency.
  — Charlotte Kent, Wired, 17 Feb. 2022
• One of Koscher's colleagues, who goes by the hacker name Falcon, notes that from a pluralistic, freedom-of-information perspective, satellite uplink capabilities could be reimagined as plentiful and available rather than exclusive and scarce.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024