Latency is dominated by speed of light delays, which are about 2.5 seconds round trip. Encoding is generally more concerned with data integrity than data minimi

Latency is dominated by speed of light delays, which are about 2.5 seconds round trip. Encoding is generally more concerned with data integrity than data minimization. I'm not sure about the details of this mission and whether the Indians have negotiated usage of the Deep Space Network, but with the large antennas of the DSN multi megabit rates are quite achievable.