Totally unrelated, but the title made me think back to one of my previous roles in the broadcast industry. If you're using a satellite as part of your platform, every second that you aren't transmitting to your birds (satellites), you're losing a massive amount of money. There are always a lot of buffers and redundant circuits in those situations, but things can always go wrong.

Funny tangent- the breakroom at that job was somewhat near the base stations. Some days around lunchtime we'd have transmission interruptions. The root cause ended up being an old noisy microwave.