How to Use uplink in a Sentence

uplink

noun
  • The company has also been able to establish uplink and downlink functions with the craft.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The units need only a simple satellite uplink to work, and plenty of electricity.
    — Dallas News, 4 May 2021
  • Right now, the uplink is being established and over the coming days the software patch will be sent to Mars and installed.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
  • But the complexity involved in synchronizing the uplink and downlink was too high.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2019
  • In tests of the system, the uplink could send 4 gigabits per second while adding just 176 femtojoules per bit of heat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • More promising has been NASA’s own tests last year of a 622 megabit per second laser uplink to the moon.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2014
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Despite these challenges, the model demonstrated that an uplink connection is feasible.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 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 downlink/uplink units were collectively referred to as the Site Controller (SC).
    — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023
  • These extensions enabled us to use part of the uplink spectrum for a D2D channel between UE devices.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • According to researchers, the uplink concept could be used to build future quantum networks across different geographies using small low-orbit satellites.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • While the development of the new software change is straightforward, the process of validating it and completing its uplink to Ingenuity will take some time.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 13 Apr. 2021
  • In this Mars Report, Curiosity engineer Reidar Larsen takes you inside the uplink room where the team talks to the rover.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Satellites can lose their orientation, suffer uplink and downlink problems, and experience electrical charging across their surface.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
  • These next-gen units are expected to provide terabit-per-second downlink capacity and more than 200 Gbps uplink capacity.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The more spectrum the uplink control channel uses, the better the quality of data transmission could be from a customer’s smartphone —but this also means that there is less spectrum available for data transmission.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2018
  • In order to bring broadband to the moon, scientists used four separate telescopes based in New Mexico to send an uplink signal to a receiver mounted on a satellite orbiting the moon.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2014
  • With 20 dBm in uplink-output power and 12 dBm in downlink-output power, the booster easily reaches cellphone towers.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • Martian spacecraft have uplink and downlink windows that vary throughout the year due to differences between Earth and Mars rotations, according to Canberra.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2018
  • Instead of computing on its own, Minitel connected to remote services via uplink, like a 1960s mainframe or a modern Google Chromebook.
    — Julien Mailland, The Atlantic, 16 June 2017
  • Rather, if the Internet of Things scales up as predicted, and smart home and smart city tech takes hold, before too long everything everywhere will be dialing in to 6G infrastructure for more and more sizable uplinks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Adapting a small wind turbine with environmental sensors, a weatherproof computer, and a 4G uplink, the machine uses wind energy as a source of electricity to mine cryptocurrency.
    — Charlotte Kent, Wired, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The uplink approach could deliver the high bandwidth needed for quantum networks because satellites would only require small optical units to process incoming photons, instead of carrying heavy quantum light-generating hardware.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • At the same time, there are some who question the ability of 5G to handle broadband connections to the home—particularly for uplink purposes—which leads us to the final event of the week, hosted by AT&T.
    — Bob O'Donnell, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021

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