uplinked

Beamed to satellite

Uplinked is the past tense of uplink, meaning to transmit data from a ground station to a satellite or spacecraft: The footage was uplinked to the satellite for broadcast.

The term extends to any transmission from a local device to a central or remote system.

The opposite is downlinked.

satellite

transponder

Signal-activated transmitter

orbit · LEO · GPS · ground station · dish · tracking · payload · spacecraft · ISS · Sputnik

transmission

signal

Message-conveying cue

bandwidth · frequency · microwave · encoder · multiplexer · bitrate · carrier · modulation · feed · stream

network

connected

Joined to another

router · modem · fiber-optic · server · node · gateway · endpoint · synchronized · interfaced · cloud

Opposites
data transmission direction

uplinkeddownlinked

Sent from spacecraft

downloaded · received · pulled · fetched · ingested

connection state

uplinkeddisconnected

Separated from a source

unlinked · severed · offline · isolated · delinked

Family

uplink, uplinks, uplinking

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