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SpaceX Pitches NASA on 'Marslink,' a Version of Starlink for the Red Planet
SpaceX's concept is among two other ideas for developing 'next-generation relay services' capable of beaming 4Mbps or more in data across vast stretches of space.
The project was mentioned during Thursday’s meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, which is dedicated to supporting NASA missions to the Red Planet. SpaceX’s concept was among two other ideas about developing “next-generation relay services” capable of beaming 4Mbps or more in data, but across 1.5 astronomical units, or the current distance between Mars and the Sun. In the meantime, NASA recently achieved a "sustained downlink data rate of 6.25 megabits per second" using a laser system on board a spacecraft that was about 240 million miles away—or a similar distance between Mars and Earth when the two planets are farthest apart.
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