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We can't really get rid of the latency but we can increase the bandwidth by throwing a bunch of higher-power communication satellites on Mars.

• falcolas 3y ago
  We can certainly push more data from Mars, but the entire point of the article is that we probably won't have the bandwidth to receive it. Unless we can convince congress and NASA execs to increase the budget and get more dishes built pronto.
  • squigaviator 3y ago
    Yep. We could cover Mar's sky with something similar to SpaceX's Starlink (high availability from any location on Mars) but with large data buffers and transmission systems that can pump the goods all the back to Earth.
    • Dylan16807 3y ago
      Three geostationary satellites should do fine for the number of data consumers on Mars.
      • midasuni 3y ago
        Except for anything at the pole. But the problem remains the link from Mars to earth, not from the surface to orbit.
      • sam_bristow 3y ago
        s/geostationary/areostationary
        • Dylan16807 3y ago
          Nah I don't want to. "Geo" is used generically often enough and I'd rather use a generic term than a mars-specific term.