Place Norway restores redundancy for Svalbard ground stations – SpaceNews
TAMPA, Fla. — Area Norway has restored communications on an undersea fiber-optic cable it operates between its Svalbard satellite station and mainland Norway, which experienced still left the Arctic area without having a backup connection immediately after failing Jan. 7.
A shunt failure brought about a reduction of ability to sign repeaters on a single of two cables that link the Arctic location, point out-operate Room Norway said Jan. 19.
“Through a work about applying alternate ability provide to the weakened cable, the redundancy was restored in the course of the evening of January 18th, 2022,” condition-run House Norway’s head of infrastructure Dag Stølan explained in a information release.
“This minimizes the running possibility until finally closing cable fix can be carried out likely in the February 2022 timeframe, depending on the availability of cable vessel and the important weather situations.”
KSAT, which House Norway 50 percent owns and makes use of the cables to hook up 100 Svalbard ground stations, mentioned consumer solutions from the archipelago keep on to function generally.
“The weakened section has been secure in operations right after details targeted visitors was re-set up, that means that redundancy to Svalbard is now obtainable in standby mode,” KSAT head of communications Nina Soleng told SpaceNews in a Jan. 20 e-mail.
Soleng explained function is ongoing to identify the exact area of the energy provide issue.
A subsea visible inspection involving a remotely operated motor vehicle is “planned for next 7 days,” she stated.
TAMPA, Fla. — Area Norway has restored communications on an undersea fiber-optic cable it operates between its Svalbard satellite station and mainland Norway, which experienced still left the Arctic area without having a backup connection immediately after failing Jan. 7.
A shunt failure brought about a reduction of ability to sign repeaters on a single of two cables that link the Arctic location, point out-operate Room Norway said Jan. 19.
“Through a work about applying alternate ability provide to the weakened cable, the redundancy was restored in the course of the evening of January 18th, 2022,” condition-run House Norway’s head of infrastructure Dag Stølan explained in a information release.
“This minimizes the running possibility until finally closing cable fix can be carried out likely in the February 2022 timeframe, depending on the availability of cable vessel and the important weather situations.”
KSAT, which House Norway 50 percent owns and makes use of the cables to hook up 100 Svalbard ground stations, mentioned consumer solutions from the archipelago keep on to function generally.
“The weakened section has been secure in operations right after details targeted visitors was re-set up, that means that redundancy to Svalbard is now obtainable in standby mode,” KSAT head of communications Nina Soleng told SpaceNews in a Jan. 20 e-mail.
Soleng explained function is ongoing to identify the exact area of the energy provide issue.
A subsea visible inspection involving a remotely operated motor vehicle is “planned for next 7 days,” she stated.
