Information Infrastructure

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Information infrastructure includes communications for Mars and communications with Earth. Facilities for information infrastructure would include communication antennas and server farms. These are linked by communication systems that may be physical or wireless.

For an objective of continuous communications with Earth a typical architecture might require a Mars ground base station, a Mars geostationary transmitter/receiver, a repeater on a Mars co-orbit to act as a relay station while Mars is behind the Sun. an earth geostationary transmitter/receiver and an Earth ground station. Additional infrastructure might be required to communicate with vehicles in transit between the two planets.

Server farms with extensive data storage would be required on Mars due to the problem of Latency between Earth and Mars. Terabytes of storage would be required for video feeds, entertainment storage, technical data and communications.

Interplanetary Internet can be used as a platform for communications with Earth.