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n. 1 (context telecommunications English) The transmission of a signal from a satellite to a receiving station on earth; or the means of this transmission. 2 (context telecommunications English) Transmission of data from a network, usually wireless, to the user. vb. To transmit a signal from a satellite to a terrestrial receiving station.
Usage examples of "downlink".
The systems were designed to allow single arrays to share data between distant recipients by rotating their downlink channels through more than one addressee.
Jadaira banked sharply to pursue him, and switched to an emergency signal downlink used only to transmit one-way distress calls.
I waz leading a caravan of ore haulerz back to ztation on Ylyd when I picked up your downlink relay.
Once they had reached orbit, Onkar was able to transmit a downlink emergency-signal warning to the other worlds within the system of the Hsktskt threat.
Four minutes after the video downlink was detected, she heard the Hoover go to full military power, the roller-coaster rattle of the steam catapult, and the final surprisingly soft thud as the catapult piston reached the end of its run and tossed the S-3 into the air.
Somewhere out there, the nondirectional video downlink was giving someone accurate targeting positions on the battle group.
Next to it, an eerily calm Islamic downlink ceaselessly reiterates the name of God in a fractal-based calligraphy.
He could have gotten into it from the ship, via downlink from the main computers, but he had no desire to attract quite that much attention.
I patched through a quick call to the satellite server, asking for an immediate downlink download.
Mogari-nai of Cl, and after some small delay for authorization, got it, downlink, uplink, all in a burst.
And the creature is sending almost as much downlink as it is receiving uplink.
General Gullick crooked a finger and Quinn hastened over to stand with him behind another operator whose screen showed a live satellite downlink, also with thermal imaging.
Whatever they transmitted would go to transponder 21 on the satellite, then instantly by downlink to New York to be rerecorded.
Emeric had also noticed a change in REC and that these sudden downlinks with planetside machines were part of a radical debugging therapy.
Would her array be able to receive a transmission from the FTL telemetry downlinks aboard the tertiary array?