Communications blackout
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Not to be confused with radio silence or news blackout.
In telecommunications, communications blackouts are
- a cessation of communications or communications capability, caused by a lack of power to a communications facility or to communications equipment.
- a total lack of radio communications capability, caused by ionospheric anomalies, e.g., during strong auroral activity or during re-entry of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.