The two MCTS sites, which are nearly 200 miles apart, are connected by a fibre optic link.

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The ground control stations send their commands to Reaper via a fibre-optic link to a satellite relay station in Europe, which bounces them into space and back down to the aircraft.

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Fibre-optic cables will link each of these dishes to a central processing area, where supercomputers will stitch their data together.

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Now, on fibre optics, he can offer his customers a reliable link at more than twice the speed.

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