I don't understand why bandwidth needs to be such a problem. Invest in a ring of small satellites in mars orbit, have them broadcast to earth satellites using

I don't understand why bandwidth needs to be such a problem. Invest in a ring of small satellites in mars orbit, have them broadcast to earth satellites using line of sight transmitters for whatever mars satellite is facing the earth. Once you build such a system you can reuse it for each future mars/deep space mission. Nasa was actually doing this but the program got canceled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Telecommunications_Orbiter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Telecommunications_Orbiter Use open standards so other nations can expand the network. How much would it cost to cover the inner core of the solar system with 100 Mbit/s bandwidth using a mesh network of satellites? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet Also does anyone want to do an off-planet backup solution startup?