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color=#0000ff>The whole forward and return terminology sprung from (I think)
cellphone technology and assumes that there's a 'center' and an 'edge'. If
I'm an astronaut using a lunar relay both to command a distant rover and to send
telemetry to Earth, am I transmitting on a forward or a return
link?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=359584021-25012007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Links are links. (wasn't there a 1970s commercial with that
theme?)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff> <FONT
size=2>--keith</FONT></FONT></SPAN><BR></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> sis-csi-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org
[mailto:sis-csi-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Adrian J.
Hooke<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 25, 2007 4:40 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Cislunar Space Internetworking<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Sis-csi] 2:30 Eastern
it is<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>At 12:41 PM 1/25/2007, Scott, Keith L.
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">"What is
'uplink'?"</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Aren't the correct terms "forward link" and
"return link"?<BR><BR>///adrian<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>