[rcxdude]

From the interview linked, it sounds like the current plan doesn't involve the DSN at all: they're effectively out of transmission range past a certain point, and the transmission back is optical, using a big earth or space-based telescope. Which is one of the scary things he mentioned: they're going to be entirely autonomous when collecting the data.

[airstrike]

Sounds like we need to drop little relay nodes along the way to build the first SpaceNet

[ksp-atlas]

*Kerbnet

[lukan]

"Which is one of the scary things he mentioned: they're going to be entirely autonomous when collecting the data."

With no way to send commands to the decices?