How to Use downlink in a Sentence

downlink

1 of 2 noun
  • The times and dates of these downlink events are posted here.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That’s more reliable than in the past, when satellite uplinks and downlinks were key.
    — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Mission control will watch over the downlink for the last bits of Cassini’s data.
    — Shannon Stirone, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • There’s always that piece in the back of your head that’s getting ready every downlink—today could be the last day, today could be the last day.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The company has also been able to establish uplink and downlink functions with the craft.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The high-level system is also tasked with choosing the most important results for downlink back to Earth.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 May 2025
  • Because, as Vetter explains, downlinks for the must-have consumer tech of the decade ahead may not be the network’s key crunch point for too much longer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The downlink was even more energy efficient, at just 34 femtojoules per bit.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The spacecraft’s 65th and final laser downlink signal reached Earth earlier this month.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But the complexity involved in synchronizing the uplink and downlink was too high.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2019
  • With its 65th laser downlink, the Psyche mission now brings its laser communications test to a close.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Then, the system would make a prediction about what the uplink/downlink throughputs would be, against different settings, and pick the best setting.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2018
  • But successful downlinks through Earth’s atmosphere depend on the weather.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The downlink speeds—the rate at which ISS can send data to ground stations—is a blazing 300 megabits per second.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Rather than clean and encode the data, bent-pipe relays just amplify the signal after converting it from an uplink to a downlink frequency.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2018
  • For Mars scientists working on rover mission teams, something very similar occurs when rovers send back their daily downlinks of data.
    — Ari Koeppel, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The downlink lasted only 20 minutes, but that precious time is something these students will always remember.
    — David Aaro, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But one of the things that is emerging is the ability for uplinks and downlinks to both be incredibly robust and to handle massive amounts of capacity.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Although Starlink's downlink speeds reach up to 250 Mbps, the bandwidth gets diluted as the number of users grows.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
  • To make big progress on telecom’s challenges to come, this kind of tech will be important to scale up and out and into devices that can meet 6G’s uplink and downlink demands.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The team calculated that satellite transmissions will lead to a 70% loss in sensitivity in the downlink band.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Cybercriminals have access to the open protocols that deliver the uplinks and downlinks.
    — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • At the moment, as seen from Earth, the Solar Orbiter is almost behind the Sun, so the data downlink has slowed to a trickle.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • Then the celebrations can begin in earnest, followed shortly thereafter by the downlink of some of the most important close-encounter observations.
    — Rich Talcott, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2015
  • Canceling the requests before a response is written reduces downlink (server/proxy to attacker) bandwidth.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The images pair well with some remarks made by mission specialist Christina Koch during a downlink event with media on Day 2 of the flight.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Until now, quantum communication has been limited to downlinks.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • On the gigabit connections, upload speeds are restricted to only 52Mbits/sec, which is roughly a twentieth of the speed of the downlink.
    — Barry Collins, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Suave also took time alongside Whitson for another video downlink on July 6, Ax-4's flight day 12.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 July 2025

downlink

2 of 2 verb
  • The space telescope will fly in a large ellipse that takes it out beyond the moon and then in close to the Earth to downlink its data.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2018
  • From now on, the mission will use standard radio communications to downlink data back to Earth.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Operating as a space-to-ground laser receiver, the station will downlink data from satellites during each overhead pass.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • While the photos were successful, the astronauts found themselves in the unusual position of having no one to downlink their photo data.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The first science data, post-flyby, is expected to start downlinking to Earth on July 15, including imaging.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2015
  • The spacecraft will be equipped with two Nikon D5 and one Nikon Z9, and Young said the agency will downlink as many photos as possible after the flyby.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 6 Apr. 2026
  • For example, the Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb satellite constellations both downlink via Ku-band frequencies, which are approximately 11 to 14 GHz.
    — Margherita Bassi, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
  • Video from GoPro cameras outside the capsule streamed down in low-resolution format, due to limitations on bandwidth coming back from deep space, but the Artemis II astronauts were expected to downlink sharper telephoto snapshots overnight Monday into Tuesday morning.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2026

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