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I'm no expert, but I believe this was created to deal with the massive delay in communications between Earth and Mars. The ISS is in low Earth orbit, so it has
by rosalinekarr 10y ago
I'm no expert, but I believe this was created to deal with the massive delay in communications between Earth and Mars. The ISS is in low Earth orbit, so it has less than a second of delay in radio signals. Mars is 20 light minutes away, so there's a 20 minute delay between with all packets sent.