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imagine, 250 tons expendable starship payload carrying 1-ton observation sats built by planet labs. there are 200+ known moons in the solar system, and about 10+ dwarf planets, give or take. we could deploy MULTIPLE orbiters to any interesting object in the solar system.
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the first problem is communication. the DSN is already woefully unequipped to handle current probes, bandwidth is extremely constrained. we should prioritize a space laser communication relay infrastructure throughout the solar system. maybe new dishes. someone should design one. any anons know what's going on in the commercial DSN sphere? nasa was talking about it at some point

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