You'd rather have zero data than data that comes in slowly? Come on this is hacker news. Quit being a troll. If you have a better way to conduct communications

You'd rather have zero data than data that comes in slowly? Come on this is hacker news. Quit being a troll. If you have a better way to conduct communications between Earth and a space craft billions of miles away using technology from over a decade old then you should apply to NASA and prove it. Remember they have the DSN which this can't tap into (afaik) which has higher bandwidth. But this shit isn't exactly easy. Even if it is easy this is a hardware design from 15 years ago...