1
: a communications channel for transmissions to a spacecraft or satellite
also
: the transmissions themselves
2
: a facility on earth for transmitting to a spacecraft or satellite
uplink
verb
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More promising has been NASA’s own tests last year of a 622 megabit per second laser uplink to the moon.
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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
By pooling their resources, Gaza journalists remain able to use a satellite uplink to broadcast live feeds in front of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2024
The signals that the North Vietnamese were sending at the missiles to direct them toward the B-52 called uplinks.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
The university had agreed to provide the firm with a dedicated on-site network with a secure uplink to a remote facility.
—Dell Cameron, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
But the complexity involved in synchronizing the uplink and downlink was too high.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2019
There’s good news for uplink speeds, too: the X75 supports 5G uplink MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) and can send two signals at the same time using FDD (Frequency Division Duplex — a spectrum technology that sends and receives data all at once rather than doing one thing at a time).
—Allison Johnson, The Verge, 15 Feb. 2023
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
By pooling their resources, Gaza journalists remain able to use a satellite uplink to broadcast live feeds in front of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2024
The signals that the North Vietnamese were sending at the missiles to direct them toward the B-52 called uplinks.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
The university had agreed to provide the firm with a dedicated on-site network with a secure uplink to a remote facility.
—Dell Cameron, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
But the complexity involved in synchronizing the uplink and downlink was too high.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2019
There’s good news for uplink speeds, too: the X75 supports 5G uplink MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) and can send two signals at the same time using FDD (Frequency Division Duplex — a spectrum technology that sends and receives data all at once rather than doing one thing at a time).
—Allison Johnson, The Verge, 15 Feb. 2023
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“Uplink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uplink. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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