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Undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed
The Drive ^ | 01 10 2022 | Thomas Newdick

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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KEYWORDS: 202201; 20220107; arctic; arcticocean; cable; cables; communications; greenlandsea; internet; nato; northpole; norway; polarorbit; sabotage; satellites; underseacable; underseacables
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To: yesthatjallen

It could be sabotage or maybe something else but it’s disconcerting.

In the fifties I seem to remember there was some scifi movie where something like this happened because of some horrific underwater monster.


41 posted on 01/11/2022 8:33:31 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: yesthatjallen

42 posted on 01/11/2022 8:36:33 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: ping jockey

THATS right, THATS right..my bad.

Anyway..its coming, and we aint gonna like it.

Drag us right down the shi# hole with them because they dont want it out that they are operating the biggest skimming operation (Ukraine) since the Outfit in Vegas,


43 posted on 01/11/2022 8:40:53 PM PST by crz
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To: yesthatjallen
Norway closes main air base above Arctic Circle

'What the f*** did I just hit?': Shocking moment Russian hunter-killer submarine crashed into Royal Navy warship that was stalking it in the Arctic Circle

["In late 2020 "] Russian submarine hit Royal Navy warship in North Atlantic

U.S. Navy will build airport infrastructure in northern Norway to meet upped Russian submarine presence
44 posted on 01/11/2022 8:46:28 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: ping jockey

He actually has a good point. NO sub goes that deep unless it is some kind of specialized model with surface support. That kind of operation would be easily noticed leaving port.
It’ll probably be a landslide or something happening deep.
Remember how much the Russians had a problem getting down to the Kursk to perform work. It was sitting on the bottom at 354 feet.


45 posted on 01/11/2022 10:22:47 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: ameribbean expat; All

In the past 6 years, this type of Russian ship has been associated with multiple cable problems around the world -

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/08/russian-spy-ship-yantar-loitering-near-trans-atlantic-internet-cables/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2019/11/10/russias-suspected-internet-cable-spy-ship-appears-off-americas/?sh=3f703f3042d5

https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-russian-threat-undersea-cables


46 posted on 01/11/2022 10:55:49 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Diogenesis

Russian did it.


47 posted on 01/11/2022 10:57:13 PM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: SecondAmendment

Yup. The usual suspect right there.


48 posted on 01/11/2022 10:57:45 PM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: yesthatjallen

49 posted on 01/11/2022 10:58:43 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Obadiah
I'm not sure what you are going after.   Norway was a founding member of NATO in 1949.   How much closer do you think they needed to get?
50 posted on 01/11/2022 11:25:44 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: yesthatjallen

Within the past week, there was a thread on FR about one of those Scandinavian countries having a sub trying to track a supposed Russian sub they suspected of trying to cut cables.

They failed and lost it.


51 posted on 01/11/2022 11:39:11 PM PST by octex
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To: yesthatjallen

This is called a russian submarine. Of course, they will eventually say it was caused by a big anchor from a container ship magically dragging along thw bottom to cut the cable.


52 posted on 01/12/2022 3:22:01 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: joma89

A ROV will be dispatched to determine the cause. It will be clear which scenario(of many possible ones) is correct.


53 posted on 01/12/2022 3:27:43 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Serpentine...Serpentine...)
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To: Secret Agent Man

You would be a fool to trust the Russians - it is largely through their decades-long efforts (and exiled Fabian socialists from Europe) that the US left is as far left as it is, so far left that the Clintons, Obama, Biden and so on were able to be taken seriously and even run for office rather than be blacklisted.


56 posted on 02/05/2024 8:24:24 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Yup, Communist manifesto goals


57 posted on 02/06/2024 2:01:29 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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