The cables run through a highly strategic stretch of water near where the Barents and Norwegian Sea meet.
Summary
- Bjoertvedt/Wikimedia Commons The Svalbard Satellite Station atop the mountain of Platåberget on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway.
- Known as the Svalbard Undersea Cable System, the dual communication cable runs between Longyearbyen and Andøya in northern Norway, each stretching more than 800 miles.
- Nsandel/Wikimedia Commons The Cable Innovator was one of the cable-laying vessels involved in laying the Svalbard Undersea Cable System.
- LOVE OCEAN OBSERVATORY Cables for the LoVe ocean observatory are prepared for deployment in May 2020.
- Now, Space Norway says it will examine what was responsible for the outage on the Svalbard Undersea Cable System.