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So these are tiny and cheap so you stagger the launches so they can relay their data back to earth. Each one could be within a few 1000km of the next one.
by mrfusion 5y ago
So these are tiny and cheap so you stagger the launches so they can relay their data back to earth. Each one could be within a few 1000km of the next one.
- danparsonson 5y agoThat would require on the order of 10^10 probes...
- mrfusion 5y agoThanks for checking my math. Looks like we’d need to stagger them by about 100 million km to be somewhat reasonable. It’s still 400,000 times less distance to transmit a signal so it would help.
- ALittleLight 5y agoBut it increases points of failure. What if one or probes in the chain break for some reason? I guess you build in redundancy, but it's not obvious to me that the added complexity - probes have to send and receive instead of just send - is worth the benefit. I really have no idea about this space though.