Mars Telecom Orbiter mission operations concepts
Marie-Jose Deutsch, Tom Komarek, Saturnino Lopez, S. Townes, Steve Synnott, Richard Austin, J. R. Guinn, P. Varghese, Bernard L. Edwards, Roy S. Bondurant, Ramon De Paula · NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA) · 2004
The Mars Telecom Orbiter (MTO) relay capability enables next decadal missions at Mars, collecting gigabits of data a day to be relayed back at speeds exceeding 4 Mbps and it facilitates small missions whose limited resources do not permit them to have a direct link to Earth.