downlinked

Beamed from orbit

Downlinked is the past tense of downlink, meaning to transmit data from a spacecraft, satellite, or aircraft to a ground station: The probe downlinked images of the asteroid's surface.

The term belongs to aerospace and telecommunications, contrasting with uplink (transmission from ground to space).

spacecraft

telemetry

Distant automated data collection

transmissionSending of information
dataFacts for analysis
signalMessage-conveying cue

ISS · capsule · Soyuz · Cygnus · Progress · Hubble · orbit · module · mission control · ground station

datasystems

transmission

Sending of information

uploadTransfer data outward
transferMove between locations
bandwidthData transmission capacity

packet · file · stream · buffer · archive · database · server · protocol · compression · decryption

Opposites

data transmission direction

downlinkeduplinked

Transmitted to spacecraft

uploaded · beamed up

Family

downlink, downlinks, downlinking

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