Yes, of course. We all know these numbers. I teach a space engineering class where students chirp out in recitation "400km to LEO, 40,000 km to GEO, 400,000 k

Yes, of course. We all know these numbers. I teach a space engineering class where students chirp out in recitation "400km to LEO, 40,000 km to GEO, 400,000 km to the moon". The degree of "well acktually" trying to be pedantic here is unnecessary. If a swarm of bees goes a couple of miles away, they don't spread out over a couple of mile distance. They are a relatively tight pack that then goes to the new place and then converges to be quite small. That's the same as what this mission is. 100,000 km is quite small as far as interstellar distances are concerned, but quite big as far as an aperture for distributed imaging or beamforming (and for avoiding hazards that are hard to see beforehand). The latter, of course, is what actually matters.