Thanks for checking my math. Looks like we’d need to stagger them by about 100 million km to be somewhat reasonable.
It’s still 400,000 times less distance to transmit a signal so it would help.
It’s still 400,000 times less distance to transmit a signal so it would help.
I guess you build in redundancy, but it's not obvious to me that the added complexity - probes have to send and receive instead of just send - is worth the benefit. I really have no idea about this space though.