Station-to-Ground Communications Communications traffic flowing Deep Space 9 and Bajor is considered station-to-ground. All other traffic between the station and mobile entities is considered under ship-to-ship and transmissions to distant planet side or orbital bases is part of the deep subspace network. Installed Hardware The total space station external communications hardware consist of 21 RF and 24 subspace transceiver assemblies as original Cardassian installs, plus Starfleet upgrades incorporating 12 RF and 6 subspace transceivers. |