This might not be noticeable right away, but we don’t fly a directional antenna on our missions. We have the ability to, but directional antennas add mass, something we want to minimize as much as possible. We fly omnidirectional antennas. They’re smaller, and they also allow us to talk to the planet when we are under continuous thrust from our Hall-effect thrusters. The cost? Well, it’s steep. At our max range, 20 million miles from the planet, our link is 120 bits per second. Normal data protocols don’t even work. We’re talking in the same domain as Voyager: slow. It drives all the decisions on data and tactics we use to rewrite the way we explore. We already have a number of mission in the pipe that will require a directional antenna for data, but this one, our core mining mission, will not.