👉 Soterial is a digital communication protocol used in satellite communications. It was developed by the University of California, Davis and was first released in 1978. Soterial uses a set of predefined protocols to establish and maintain communication between satellites and ground stations. The protocol consists of a series of commands that are sent from one satellite to another, with each command specifying the data it wants to send and the time at which it will be received. The goal of soterial is to