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Re:NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever by dmurray on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:02AM (#29564792)
Highly elliptical orbits are cheaper to achieve anyway, right? You can get into one directly from your Venus gravity assists, and not have to keep precious fuel to transfer to a circular orbit later on.
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Re:NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @09:55AM (#29566743)
Yes.

As a bonus in this particular case, it limits your time in the higher temperatures of the corona; the spacecraft gets time to radiate heat and cool off before the next skim through.

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