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How closely aligned to your mission will be the future of communications while visiting the bodies you're interested in studying? IPN + DTN = interplanetary networking, aka tcp breaks in high round trip times with speed of light delays at great distances, so store and forward satellites orbiting the sun and other celestial bodies will act as relays. If you've ever understood how bbs systems worked in teh 80's and/or usenet news connected briefly to exchange data over a modem and pass its data on to the next server and so on .. its almost like thiat. With modern encryption as well as 4 dimentional math (where in space and when due to orbital mechanics and potential obstructions). Not only do we need to develop the hardware to get to space, the habitat to live in space, the food stuffs to survive off planet, and transplant industry from earth to space, a vital link is communications. I don't hear about the future of communications in space. Hopefully this can be kin to your mission if not a part of it in the future ;-)