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The reason for that is there's a an important satellite ground station on Svalbard - it's in an ideal place to communicate with polar-orbiting satellites: http
by russss 15y ago
The reason for that is there's a an important satellite ground station on Svalbard - it's in an ideal place to communicate with polar-orbiting satellites:
http://www.ksat.no/node/77 http://www.ksat.no/node/77
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_System
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- alexqgb 15y agoPhotographer Christian Hougue produced a really beautiful series on this ground stations called Arctic Technology. He mentioned that the air is some of cleanest in the world, which is a real boon to the equipment they're running. http://www.soulfood.no/arctic_technology.html#img/arctic_technology/01.jpg http://www.soulfood.no/arctic_technology.html#img/arctic_tec...
- omegant 15y agoCertainly great pics!, There is only missing some AT-ATs and storm troopers in some of them...