"#SpaceNorway reports one of their two cables linking Longyearbyen and Svalsat Satellite station in Svalbard with continental Flag of Norway was cut Friday
Remaining cable fully operational, - redundancy"
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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"#SpaceNorway reports one of their two cables linking Longyearbyen and Svalsat Satellite station in Svalbard with continental Flag of Norway was cut Friday
Remaining cable fully operational, - redundancy"
Russians
Israel
Usa
China
Those are my guesses, not necessarily in any order
Disruption at one of two undersea cables to Svalbard There is no redundant between the Arctic archipelago and mainland Norway after loss of power in the area where the fiberoptic cable follows the seabed down to a depth of 2,700 meters in the Greenland Sea.
The cable was probably severed because of Climate Change.
Everything bad that happens anywhere is caused by either Trump or Climate Change. And I don’t think Trump is involved here.
Not just the furthest north, but the furthest north of its kind anywhere in the world!
Would this satellite station provide data on Ukraine and the Russian forces surrounding it?
That’s my guess. Russia and motive is Ukraine.
Those damn Killer Whales.
You left the Kraken off of your list.
Alien invasion approach route secured.
Someone went through a lot of trouble to cut these off.
My guess: the Russkies practicing for more significant cable cuts elsewhere.
No, it died of Covid.
Remember those halcyon days when everything bad that happened was Bush’s fault?
Seismic activity often plays a role in these kinds of incidents. The seafloor is over 8,000 ft deep in some areas that the cable traverses. Lots of stuff can happen at that depth. No submarines can go that deep so unless they announce at what depth it was disrupted speculation that it was man made activity is just that - speculation.
The Russians have lost another submarine?/movie
Maybe one named Stacey?
I am guessing that they are glad to be good customers of Elon,
Hopefully Starlink has essential connectivity functions covered.
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