Exploration missions beyond the moon takes very long time to reach their target destinations. Yet their launches are quite rare. I believe, developing a third stage to the most frequently launched rocket in the world would enable us to explore the solar system faster.
Only in 2018 a SHERPA Space Tug was added to Falcon 9 to convert it to a three staged rocket. The Space Tug is just a commercial satellite dispenser. A high energy third stage on the other hand can deploy a small planetary satellite such as a lunar telecom relay. As a result, the spacecrafts orbiting the moon would experience minimum or no blackout. I also had proposed a solar relay network that enables connectivity between the Earth and the satellites orbiting a planet on the other side of the sun. The connectivity between Earth and Mars cannot be maintained a yearlong at the moment. However, solar relay network would allow almost continuous connectivity between Earth and the inner and outer planets.
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