I think you have an interesting idea, but might not be thinking of the physics involved.
> The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 54.6 million kilometers. The farthest apart they can be is about 401 million km. The average distance is about 225 million km.
Loosely, the speed of light is ~300,000km/s. So 182s, 1333s, and 750s as an absolute minimum length of time from end to end.
So, there are varying orbits, that's one problem. The other problem is getting items into solar orbits.
I didn't think of this, but now you have an even bigger problem of trying to keep those items in some sort of array that is in a direct line between Earth<->Mars.
If we hand-wave away that problem, the next problem is that each hop is adding latency, so, the direct answer is: no, it makes things slower, and it's a significantly harder problem than just communicating across that distance.
> The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 54.6 million kilometers. The farthest apart they can be is about 401 million km. The average distance is about 225 million km.
Loosely, the speed of light is ~300,000km/s. So 182s, 1333s, and 750s as an absolute minimum length of time from end to end.
So, there are varying orbits, that's one problem. The other problem is getting items into solar orbits.
I didn't think of this, but now you have an even bigger problem of trying to keep those items in some sort of array that is in a direct line between Earth<->Mars.
If we hand-wave away that problem, the next problem is that each hop is adding latency, so, the direct answer is: no, it makes things slower, and it's a significantly harder problem than just communicating across that distance.