Fiber connectivity to moon

It is nice to see that the SRE experiment was a success to India's space research arena. Also, read that this is a major milestone to complete the manned mission - Chandrayaan - to moon.

I believe that we always used to think different and I strongly believe that such thoughts will make us different. Here is a thought which mooted in my mind when going through the Chandrayaan story.

This is a very simple and humble thought - why can't we attach a Cisco GSR and a long optic fiber cable to the end of the rocket and become the first nation having inter-planet fiber connectivity? If necessary, we can embed a CCNP/CCIE person also to the end of the rocket - we have plenty here, I am sure that it will not going to cost much!

Only thing we need to ensure is that there must be enough cable length to cover the distance between moon and earth. Also, experienced scientists like me may raise concern about the heat and fire emitted from the bottom of the rocket may damage the cable during the launch.

Here comes the importance of India's latest achievement - SRE or Space Capsule Recovery Experiment. We have to fold the fiber inside the satellite and launch it to moon. Then tie it somehow in moon (we may tie to a rock or tree) and then clap the hands and call the satellite back to earth. The satellite will unwind the fiber and finally fall on Bay of Bengal. Well, with the help of some fishermen, either we can drag the cable to any costal city or we can patch it with any international fiber (trans Atlantic??) running under the Bay of Bengal.

The conclusion is that this will help us to establish a milestone by owning a TB/s connectivity to moon. Considering the fact that moon is going to be a human colony shortly, there will be a high demand for bandwidth to moon for triple service (Voice/Data/Video). This infrastructure should boost the domestic information flow as well as will be a money maker as we can lend the dark fibers to countries such as US/UK/Japan.