Posted on 01/11/2022 6:31:51 PM PST by yesthatjallen
An undersea fiberoptic cable located between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has been put out of action in a still-mysterious incident. The outage on the subsea communications cable — the furthest north of its kind anywhere in the world — follows an incident last year in which different cables linking an undersea surveillance network off the Norwegian coast were severed, a story that we covered in detail at the time.
The latest disruption involves one of two fiberoptic cables that enable communications between the Norwegian mainland and Norwegian-administered Svalbard that lies between the mainland and the North Pole. The outage occurred on the morning of January 7, but was first widely reported yesterday. The extent of the damage is not clear from the official press release from Space Norway, the country's space agency, which maintains the cables primarily in support of the Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat), but it is significant enough that it is expected to require the services of an ocean-going cable-laying vessel.
In addition to the SvalSat facilities, the fiber-optic cables provide broadband internet to Svalbard. The SvalSat site consists of more than 100 satellite antennas on a mountain plateau and is the largest commercial ground station of its kind.
Being located between mainland Norway and the North Pole means that SvalSat is in much demand with operators of polar-orbiting satellites, being one of only two ground stations from which data can be downloaded from these types of satellites on each of the Earth’s rotations.
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sad thing is
i can totally see biden ordering it to frame the russkies too
i don’t trust my own effing government
not one part of it anymore
Could Roy Scheider be reached for comment?
That was supposed to have been in the Black Sea.
I guess they finally found the Russian sub that the USN named the “Black Hole” that NATO naval forces lost while tracking it in the Med.
Funny thing... countries are using Diesel Electric subs for stealth capabilities.
These stupid losers in the Sh@ts and Giggles administration are really eager to get into a shooting war with the Russians for some reason.
Pick a fight with a major nuclear capable nation. Really smart.
“sad thing is
i can totally see biden ordering it to frame the russkies too
i don’t trust my own effing government
not one part of it anymore”
I 100% agree with all four lines
“ the fiber-optic cables provide broadband internet to Svalbard”
Some one cut off their porn on the North Pole 🤪
Heh heh heh.........
Are you sure about that? You may be thinking only of conventional attack subs, but don’t forget that subs have gone to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (depth - over 36,000 feet). It doesn’t take a huge conventional sub to cut a cable, nor does it even have to be manned.
Norway and the USA, beginning under Trump I believe, created closer naval ties predicated on NATO. The Russians are not happy about this expansion or any expansion of NATO as I believe it violates a past treaty with Russia wherein we would not expand NATO.
I believe the Russians did this with some obviousness.
Sounds like a Brad Thor novel.
You are correct - I was thinking of a conventional military sub. Using a deep sea submersible 8,000 ft would not be beyond range, especially for an unmanned unit.
It is a wonder it ever worked.
Here is a video of a oil pipeline and data cable being laid down and it shows the very rugged seabed.
A simple landslide will destroy the cable and pipe.
“The Langeled pipeline (originally known as Britpipe) is an underwater pipeline transporting Norwegian natural gas to the United Kingdom”
https://youtu.be/iGBPgtomdjA?t=613
Oh man, I was thinking of retiring there too! Now I won't be getting any videos from Svalbard huh? I love watching videos from there.
Looks like Putin is starting to show just a bit of what he can do if Biden and the EU don’t learn to get out of his backyard.
“Would this satellite station provide data on Ukraine and the Russian forces surrounding it?”
It used to...
Wrong. It was the Amish.
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