NOTE: this model assumes each link has 100m dishes, powered by an equal area of solar panels to driving a wide band transmitter using the 90-100GHz band.

name	light minutes	Earth Relay	Mars Relay
e_m
el4		L4
el5		L5
ml4			L4
ml5			L5
el4_ml4		L4	L4
el4_ml5		L4	L5
el5_ml4		L5	L4
el5_ml5		L5	L4

total b/w (Gb/s)
ang from Earth (sol radi / deg)
ang from Mars (sol radi / deg)

This plots the one-way latency for a light speed signal from earth to mars via the direct pathas well as via relays stationed at the Earth and Mars L4 and L5 points.

Bandwidth per link in Gb/sec.

Total Bandwidth in Gb/sec.

Angle between sun and earth/mars line, in unit of apparent redius of the sun.